While coverage is shaped by mostly male, white and privately educated journalists, it will not engage large sections of society
By Isabelle Westbury for Wisden
Cricket Monthly
When lockdown started and sport stopped, cricket journalists were provided with a unique opportunity to look in on themselves. Nostalgia replaced live action and sport’s writers, and talkers, turned to what they knew and where they came from. It confirmed, in stark terms, an industry that does not reflect the
UK population, whether it be in terms of gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, education, sexual orientation, able-bodiedness or geography.
For cricket, a straightforward explanation for this disconnect is that the sport’s media reflects a game which itself lacks diversity. Make cricket more representative of our population at large and the media will follow.