The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind
By Ramachandra Guha
English | 2020 | ISBN : 0008422516 | 360 pages | EPUB | 2.77 MB
By Ramachandra Guha
English | 2020 | ISBN : 0008422516 | 360 pages | EPUB | 2.77 MB
From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.
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.
As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket.
In this book, Guha offers both a brilliantly charming memoir and a charter of the life of cricket in India. He traces the game across every level at which it is played: school, college, club, state and country.
He offers vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons and international stars. Following the narrative of his life intertwined and in love with the sport, Guha captures the magic of bat and ball that has ensnared billions.