Derek Pringle identifies the start of social change creeping into cricket during the Summer of Love
It is 50 years since the ‘Summer of Love’ and everything associated with it – psychedelic music, mind-bending substances and free love. But what part, if any, did cricket, the English summer game, play in this social revolution, or was it impervious to the changes going on around it?
To start with Yorkshire, scarcely a hotbed of social change back then, won the County Championship. It was the last season before overseas players came into the county game, so pretty monochr...