Cricket and English literature expressed one bourgeois ideological order

Evidence

But the two—cricket and English literature—were complements. Each of them, as he was to discover in England, were cultural and ideological expressions of the same social order, a bourgeois order grounded on capitalism, systematized in the nineteenth century by Thomas Arnold’s philosophy of the public school, tutored by the moral persuasions of Thomas Hughes, and embodied in the play of W. G. Grace, the cricketer. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1245