Jeremy McKenna, editor (University of Leuven)
e-mail: jeremy@copyrat.eu
Born in Perth, Australia in 1976, Jeremy David McKenna moved to Belgium in 1996 to continue his studies in philosophy at the University of Leuven. Since graduating with the degrees of Bachelor in Philosophy and Licentiate in Philosophy, McKenna currently holds a post-graduate research position at the Institute’s Centre for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language. McKenna’s main research interests include scientific realism, personal identity, aesthetics and subject theory. He has delivered several papers on personal identity, epistemology and metaphysics and is currently engaged in completing his doctoral dissertation entitled, Mind, Body, Person. Reflections on the concept of personal identity. The present volume is the product of a life-long love of cricket. An avid club player since the age of 10, McKenna is also a qualified umpire. He has been a member of the Primary Club since 2003 (although qualified for membership much earlier), is currently secretary of both Antwerp Cricket Club and the Belgian Cricket Federation and was elected to MCC in 2005.

Simon Brodbeck (University of London)
e-mail: sb4@soas.ac.uk
Born in Lancaster, England in 1970, Simon Pearse Brodbeck is currently a full-time researcher at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with honours; at King’s College, University of London, completing his Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1993; and at SOAS, University of London, where he graduated Master of Arts, with distinction, in Indian religions. Brodbeck received his PhD from SOAS in 2002 with his thesis entitled, Asakta karman (action without attachment) in the Bhagavadgita. His publications include Religious Experience in London (co-authored with Olga Pupynin in 2001); “Calling Krishna’s bluff: non-attached action in the Bhagavadgita” (2004); as well as several conference papers and articles in press on Indian philosophy. Brodbeck began his cricket career at school where he took a hat-trick on début. He has been an active member of the Hackney Grasshoppers since 1993 and played for the Holy Cross Academicals, Edinburgh in 2003.

Samir Chopra (City University of New York)
e-mail: schopra@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Samir Chopra is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Chopra received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Statistics from Delhi University in 1984. He completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1990 and a PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York in 2000. Chopra was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales from 2000-2002 and has published several articles in the fields of logic, foundations of cognitive science and artificial intelligence and the politics of technology (including a book co-authored with Scott Dexter, entitled Decoding Liberation, forthcoming with Routledge).  During his third year at Delhi University, he captained the Mathematics Department cricket team in the inter-departmental competition. Chopra played C-grade cricket in Sydney's Northern Suburbs Competition from 2000 to 2002 and still makes guest appearances for his club when visiting Sydney during the northern winters. Chopra runs the cricket blog, Eye on Cricket: http://eye-on-cricket.blogspot.com.

David Coady (University of Tasmania)
e-mail: David.Coady@utas.edu.au
David Coady was born in Oxford, England in 1965. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, graduating Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts and at the City University of New York where he received his PhD in Philosophy. His diverse publications include articles on causation, philosophy of law, police ethics and conspiracy theories. He is currently lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Coady’s accomplishments in the field of cricket include taking three catches in the opening over of his school’s second eleven and sparking an academic controversy in 1996 concerning the differences between baseball and cricket in the pages of The New York Review of Books with a letter entitled ‘Not Cricket’.

Kurt Devooght (University of Leuven)
e-mail: kurt.devooght@ehsal.be
Kurt Devooght S.E. was born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1967. He studied at the University of Leuven, graduating Bachelor in Philosophy in 1987, with a Licentiate in Economics in 1994, Master of Science in Economics in 1995 and with a Licentiate in Theology in 1997. Devooght was awarded his PhD in Economics in 2003 with the thesis, Essays On Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarianism and the Measurement of Income Inequality. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1992. Currently a lecturer in applied economics at the University of Leuven, Devooght has also worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics from 1999-2000. He has published extensively in economics and philosophy, including the articles, “Responsibility-Sensitive Fair Compensation in Different Cultures” (co-authored with E. Schokkaert 2003); “Measuring Inequality by Counting Complaints: Theory and Empirics” (2003); “Equality of What?” (1997) and the contribution, “Equality” (in Matter of Breath. Foundations for professional ethics. G. De Stexhe & J. Verstraeten eds. Leuven: Peeters, 2000: 213-225). Devooght was introduced to cricket at the 'late' age of 30 by an Indian student in Leuven, whose passion for the game and patience in explaining its rules and practices wore off on him. During his stay at L.S.E., Devooght was able to develop his own passion for cricket by watching it on television and at the home of his favourite county side, Surrey C.C.C. at The Oval.

Jonathan Evans (University of Indianapolis)
e-mail: jevans@uindy.edu
Jonathan R. Evans is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Indianapolis in Indiana. He has published articles on modality and future contingents in medieval philosophy and conducts research in metaphysics, medieval philosophy and ethics.  He became interested in cricket following the 1994 players’ strike in Major League Baseball.  The players’ strike produced a resolve in him not only (unsuccessfully) to boycott baseball for several seasons, but also to find a replacement that not only occupied the vacant period in the U.S. sporting calendar, but one which appealed to the general aesthetic and cerebral qualities of baseball.  While favouring no national team, Evans has developed a keen interest in Glamorgan CCC and its associated players.

Douglas Farland (University of Natal)
e-mail: Farland@ukzn.ac.za
Douglas Farland was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1970. He was educated at the University of Natal, Durban, at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and at the University of Reading (UK). He is currently engaged in completing his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Reading on Four Attempts to Naturalise the Concept of a Practical Reason. Recent publications include, “Let’s get Real About Moral Particularism” (1999) and “An Error Theory of Reasons?” in Hume, Reasons and Motivation (forthcoming) Charles Pigden (ed.). He has been a lecturer at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg since 1995 where he was among the founding members of the Dons cricket club, a now more serious collection of cricketers who play in Pietermaritzburg’s third division. Although he is considered a batsman, Farland’s average invariably hovers around 20.

C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James, historian, novelist, cultural critic and political activist was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1901. James came to Britain in 1932 to help his friend, Learie Constantine write his autobiography. He became cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and, later, the Glasgow Herald. During this period, C.L.R. was a central figure in the Pan-African movement. In 1958, he returned to Trinidad to take part in the preparations for colonial emancipation he had advocated for a quarter of a century. C.L.R. then returned to London where he died in 1989. His many extraordinary writings include his famous study of the Haitian revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938); Minty Alley (1936), a novel; the play Toussaint L’Ouverture, in which he and Paul Robeson performed in London in 1936; Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (1977); three volumes of selected writings, The Future in the Present, Spheres of Existence and At the Rendez-vous of Victory; and the celebrated, Beyond a Boundary (1963), from which the chapter in the present volume has been reproduced.

Ian Jennings (Humboldt University)
e-mail: idjennings@hotmail.com
Ian Jennings was born in East London, South Africa, in 1965. He was educated at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, the University of Cape Town and Humboldt University, Berlin. He obtained his Master of Arts in Philosophy from UCT in 1997 with a dissertation entitled The concept of autonomy and is currently writing up his PhD, Joseph Raz and the attack on state neutrality under the supervision of R. Jay Wallace (now Professor at the University of California, Berkeley) at Humboldt University. Recent publications include “Autonomy and hierarchical compatibilism” (1997) and “Wolf and Christman on autonomy” (2000). He taught as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy (now part of the School of Human and Social Studies) at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg from 1994 – 2001 and, together with Douglas Farland, is a founder member of the Dons, a motley collection of academic cricketers which has recently graduated from losing hastily-organised friendlies to losing highly-strategised encounters in the Pietermaritzburg Third League.  An all-rounder of the traditional mould, Jennings bats and bowls equally badly.

Terry Roberts (Victoria University)
e-mail: Terence.Roberts@vu.edu.au
Terence J. Roberts was born in Ontario, Canada in 1948. He attended the University of Windsor, graduating Bachelor of Physical and Health Education in 1971 and Master of Physical Education in 1973. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1976. He has published numerous papers in philosophy of sport and is currently head of the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance at Victoria University in Melbourne. A fan of cricket by naturalisation, Roberts has followed the rising fortunes of the Australian team over most of the past three decades.

John Sutton (Macquarie University)
e-mail: John.Sutton@scmp.mq.edu.au
John Sutton is lecturer in philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. Sutton received his Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Oxford University, and his PhD in Philosophy from Sydney University. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Edinburgh, and UCSD and presented the community radio show, “Ghost in the Machine”, on Eastside Radio in Sydney from 2001 to 2005. He is the author of Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to connectionism (1998) and co-editor of Descartes’ Natural Philosophy (2000). His major field of interest is the history and philosophy of psychology, especially with regard to memory and dreaming. A top-order batsman and occasional bowler of innocuous medium-pace, Sutton was confronted with the profound limits to his cricketing abilities during a season of grade cricket in Sydney at the age of 18. He has since captained Scotland Under 19’s for two years and Oxford University’s 2nd XI. Sutton also played for Stirling County during their championship season of 1985, and has been lucky enough to play in New Zealand, Holland and Guyana as well as the UK and Australia. More recently he played in Macquarie University's glorious premiership-winning 4th-grade side in 2005-06.

Sampie Terreblanche (University of Leuven/University of Johannesburg)
e-mail: gelassenheit_2@hotmail.com
Salomon J. (Sampie) Terreblanche was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1974. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, graduating with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1996, BA Honours in Philosophy in 1998, and Master of Arts in Philosophy in 2000. In 2005 he completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Leuven with a dissertation entitled Reconsidering Humane Social Ideals – Prophetic Hope in Emmanuel Levinas and Ernst Bloch. He currently holds a post-doctoral research fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. Terreblanche has a wide interest in twentieth century social and humanistic philosophy, ranging from phenomenology to critical theory and liberation theology. He has presented several papers on social ethics in Levinas and Bloch and is the author of various articles on the subject (in Afrikaans and English) including, “Subject and the realization of ethical responsibility: The Idea of the Infinite in Levinas’s Totality and Infinity” (2000) and “The melancholy of life’s work: Labour, hope and consolation in the utopian thought of Ernst Bloch” (2003). Terreblanche has been a fervent cricket fan since 1986. As a spectator he has had the fortune of sharing in the collective excitement of South Africa’s successful return to international cricket during the 1990’s, after two decades in isolation. Like many other South Africans, Terreblanche has witnessed first hand the potential of cricket, and of sport in general, to revitalise a spirit of hope and solidarity within a broken social reality.

Cain Todd (Lancaster University)
e-mail: c.todd@lancaster.ac.uk
Cain Todd is lecturer in philosophy at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Furness College, Lancaster University. Born in Australia in 1976, he graduated Bachelor of Arts with honours from Sydney University in 1997. The following year he left Australia for the UK where he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History in 1999. He was awarded his PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge University in 2003. Todd’s diverse research interests comprise aesthetics, realism and anti-realism, simulation theory and theories of imagination. He still plays cricket for Trinity College and helped the side to victory in the college cuppers competition in 2000. He was captain of the Trinity Graduate side in 2001 and has also played for the Old Spring, a Cambridge pub team and in Norfolk, for a visiting team from Hamburg.