The Great Indian Cricket Circus: Amazing Stats, Facts and Everything in Between

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The Great Indian Cricket Circus takes a rollicking journey through more than a century of Indian cricketing history. It tells the stories of not just the matches and the players, but also of crazy fans, mind-boggling endorsements, memorable scores, eccentric commentators, iconic stadiums and much more.

Supremely entertaining, and full of bewildering events, surprising anecdotes and cool facts compiled together in wacky, interesting ways, this is the perfect book for fans of the sport, trivia lovers or anyone looking for a fun read!

Abhishek Mukherjee is the content head at Wisden India. He co- authored Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town; won the Anandji Dossa Award for the Cricket Statistician of the Year in 2019/20; used to be the assistant editor at the Wisden India Almanack and the chief editor at Cricket Country; and has written for several media houses, including The Cricketer, Money control, The Quint, and Yahoo! Cricket.

Joy Bhattacharya is a cricket analyst with Cricbuzz, the world's largest online cricket platform, and also runs a professional volleyball league. He was the project director for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which in October 2017 became the most attended junior tournament in the history of FIFA. His previous engagements include being team director for the Kolkata Knight Riders which included two championship seasons, head of programming for both History Channel and National Geographic channel for South Asia, and ESPN Star Sports' first Indian head of production. He also designed India's first ever fantasy sports game, Super Selector, for ESPN Star Sports. Joy writes regularly on sport for The Economic Times and has also written on cricket for The Times of India, India Today, BBC, The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times.

Where does cricket end and the rest of life begin? In India, you never know. Most of us grew up on a steady diet of book cricket in classrooms, tennis-ball matches at lunchtime, and noisy action at the local parks near our homes. And then, of course, there were days when all this was forgotten, when India played, and we would anxiously check, on TV, or even on the radio at the local tea stall, whether Sachin was still batting.