Back of the Book
Ramachandra Guha once said he writes on history for a living and on cricket to live. The States of Indian Cricket marries the craft of history to the life of cricket in India and is described by its author as 'the product of a lifelong addiction to the most sophisticated sport known to mankind.'
In this book, Guha draws upon the memories of several generations of cricket lovers to give us wonderful sketches of India's cricketers, the forgotten as well as the famous: from C.K. Nayudu and Vinoo Mankad to Saurav Ganguly and Anil Kumble. Using the device of imaginary all-time India Elevens, he provides rich insights into the cities and states in which Indian cricket was forged.
We thus have here, for the first time within the covers of a single volume, an informal, anecdotal, and immensely readable history of Indian cricket, a book which complements Guha's celebrated work on the sport's social history, A Corner of a Foreign Field (2002).
The publication of this book will be welcomed by lovers of cricket, connoisseurs of fine writing, and fans of Ramachandra Guha.
Contents
Introduction: Growing Up with Cricket
1
WICKETS IN THE EAST: AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY
Acknowledgements
15
Prologue: Honouring Our Heroes
16
Jore Ball in Bengal
24
2
Bombay: India's Yorkshire?
41
3
The Lions of Punjab-in Delhi
59
4
Nawabs and Commoners in Hyderabad
76
5
Majestic Mysore
89
6
Tamils and Turbans in Triplicane
114
7
Princely India: The Living
133
8
Princely India: A Requiem
148
9
Remainders
163
SPIN AND OTHER TURNS:
INDIAN CRICKET'S COMING OF AGE
Preface
175
Coming of Age
176
The Holy Trinity
184
The Slow Men of India
199
The Two Gavaskars
213
For Country and for City
225
The Best-loved Cricketer
243
Stumpers of Spin
257
The One Who Wasn't There
273
Traditions to Live By
289
Index
299
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