Norman Geras makes some humourous suggestions for topics for the philosophy of cricket volume. I think a long paper on the ethics of walking might be amusing and/or enlightening.

I wonder if there’s anything to be read into the fact that cricket and soccer, the two most popular sports in England seem to have the strongest code of ethical conduct of major team sports. By that I mean that in those sports, as opposed to almost every other professional sport, participants are regularly required by the ethics of the game (as opposed to the rules of the gam) to engage in actions that harm their team – sometimes dramatically – their team’s chances. Maybe there are lots of sports with conventions like walking when you know you are out, or kicking the ball out when a player is injured (and returning the ball if the other team has done this) but if they exist they aren’t widely popular in America. (Are cricket and soccer the two most popular sports anywhere else in the world other than England? I guess parts of the Carribean, although baseball and basketball are competitors. Perhaps in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka? Maybe Wales, although I’d have thought rugby would edge one of them out.)