What Does Test Cricket Reveal About the Legacy of Empire? With Tim Wigmore
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. What can the history of test cricket tell us about identity, empire, and who gets to belong on the world's biggest sporting stage? With the Ashes in full swing this week in Perth, deputy cricket correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Tim Wigmore joins us to discuss the people, power structures, and inequalities that have shaped the game since 1877.
In conversation with Joey de Urso, he looks at how Test cricket reflects questions of class, race, empire, and opportunity, and what its 150 year legacy reveals about global culture and international relations. Let's join our host, Joey de Urso now, with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Joey Derso and our guest today is Tim Wigmore. So Tim Wigmore is a sports writer for the Daily Telegraph.
He's also written for The Economist in the New York Times. He's a multi-award-winning author of books, including Criconomics, which is a former Waterstone sports book of the year, and his most recent book, which he'll be discussing today, and I've read it and it's very good. It's Test Cricket a history. It's a narrative history of Test cricket and it's just been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for 2025. Welcome, Tim.
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