Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University and Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Sport Study Group. He has published numerous papers on historical and sociological aspects of cricket and has recently expanded his research interests to include the critical sociological analysis of sports medicine. He has published a number of co-edited texts - The Future of Football, Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Sport Histories, and Matters of Sport. He is author of the Sage Dictionary of Sports Studies published in 2008.

Jon Gemmell teaches History and Sociology at Kennet School, Thatcham. He is the author of The Politics of South African Cricket, and has written a number of articles exploring the links between race/ethnicity, politics and cricket in South Africa, Australia and Ireland. He is the co-editor of Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup and is currently working on a history of the ethos of cricket.

Nalin Mehta is Founding Joint Editor of South Asian History and Culture and Trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation. A Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2007), he is the author of India on Television and Olympics: The India Story. He works for the Global Fund, Geneva, and is currently co-writing a history of the Commonwealth Games and Delhi 2010.