Author: James Astill
I was traveling to India and wanted to catch up on 25 years of cricket while sitting on a plane. This seemed like the perfect book for this. It started out with some of the early cricketing pioneers of India and it was interesting to see how it gained popularity despite the fact that the British did nothing to encourage it when they ruled India. The book quickly progresses to more modern times and the author has done his homework well in terms of distilling the essence of the key players of the Indian Cricket Team through the second half of the twentieth century. His descriptions of Gavaskar, Vishwanath, Bedi, Chandra, Prasanna and Venkat were precise and brought on a wave of nostalgia as I read through those sections. Finally, the part that I really needed an education was the events leading up to the IPL. The author is clearly not impressed with the quality of the cricket there and expresses his doubts on whether it is beneficial to the cricket game as a whole.
Overall, I would not recommend this book unless you are looking to get educated on the Indian Cricket scene.
I was traveling to India and wanted to catch up on 25 years of cricket while sitting on a plane. This seemed like the perfect book for this. It started out with some of the early cricketing pioneers of India and it was interesting to see how it gained popularity despite the fact that the British did nothing to encourage it when they ruled India. The book quickly progresses to more modern times and the author has done his homework well in terms of distilling the essence of the key players of the Indian Cricket Team through the second half of the twentieth century. His descriptions of Gavaskar, Vishwanath, Bedi, Chandra, Prasanna and Venkat were precise and brought on a wave of nostalgia as I read through those sections. Finally, the part that I really needed an education was the events leading up to the IPL. The author is clearly not impressed with the quality of the cricket there and expresses his doubts on whether it is beneficial to the cricket game as a whole.
Overall, I would not recommend this book unless you are looking to get educated on the Indian Cricket scene.
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