When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn''t won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket''s sole superpower.
The Commonwealth of Cricket is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars.
Cast as a work of literature, The Commonwealth of Cricket is keenly informed by the author''s scholarly training, the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir, anecdote, reportage and political critique, providing a rich, insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
347 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
HarperCollins Publishers India |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2020-11-18 |
| ISBN |
9789390327287 |
