About the Book

From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.

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.

Critical Praise

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008422547
• ISBN 10: 0008422540
• Imprint: William Collins
• On Sale: 11/11/2021
• Pages: 336
• List Price:18.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• BISAC2 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
• BISAC3 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic
• BISAC4 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• BISAC5 : HISTORY / Social History

Ramachandra Guha

Biography

Ramachandra Guha was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. His many books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods, a landmark history of the Republic, India after Gandhi, and an authoritative two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, each of which was chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. Having previously taught at Yale, Stanford and the Indian Institute of Science, he is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University.

Guha has been a professional historian for some three decades now. He has been a cricket fanatic for three decades longer still. He says he writes on history for a living; and on cricket to live. His awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History, the Cricket Society Book of the Year Award (for A Corner of a Foreign Field), the R.K. Narayan Prize and the Fukuoka Prize. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University.

Other Works by Ramachandra Guha

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  The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

  By Ramachandra Guha

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  India After Gandhi Revised and Updated Edition

  By Ramachandra Guha