TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guha, Ramachandra, 
TI  - Commonwealth of cricket: a lifelong love affair with the most subtle and sophisticated game known to humankind 
SN  - ‎9789354894992
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Fourth Estate
KW  - India
KW  - Cricket
KW  - Cricket stories
N2  - "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 the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international starts. 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."--

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