As part of the Imperial rule, it was common for the Colonial power to use sport to educate locals and maintain control. Cricket was brought to these shores by the British in the early 1900s. To understand the change, one must understand the journey of the sport in the island.

The competition is ritualised and the overriding point lies in the status gained by the hosting village, climaxing in exchanging food. These chants - rude, sly and often funny - shed light on the history of the island as they range from airplanes, sailors, predatory seabirds to chewing gum. There are chants and dances for team entrance, exit and outs. They have changed the bat, ball and wickets the players are dressed in war paints and treated with oil - symbolising a change in their personality and inhibitions much like warriors heading into battle - and war magic is used. It had a lot to do with the power of Trobriand culture, and the way the rules of cricket were bent to local ways of doing things.'Īs part of the local culture of inclusion, Trobriand cricket has no restrictions on the number of players. It’s unusual for a game to be transformed so radically. So it’s not that surprising that a very different version of cricket played in the Trobriand Islands has emerged. 'Games are always changing,' says Orin Starn, professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Trobriand Cricket is just one example, an extreme one. Often the changes are subtle, marked by how society identifies and imbibes the sport. Transculturalisation or transculturation of sport - where a sport changes as it moves into new spaces due to the societal and cultural influence - is nothing new. The local culture and values had seeped into game as it became appropriated into a style that is, if not unique, certainly unusual to the outside world. The chassis was clearly the gentleman’s game but the rest, had just echoes of it.

It showed the cricket played in the Trobriand Islands. In 1975, Jerry Leach and Gary Kildea released a documentary titled: Trobriand Cricket.

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