Saturday, February 28, 2015

A History of Indian Cricket

On 24 August 1971 – “The Day the Elephant came to the Oval” – India, underneath the captaincy of A.L. Wadekar, won her first Take a look at match against England in England. From this dramatic starting-point Mihir Bose specializes in the rollercoaster nature of India’s cricket history, from its early days within the time of the British Raj to the current day period that has been characterised by both the sublime (the batting mastery of Sachin Tendulkar) and the ridiculous (the match-fixing scandals related to the nefarious activities of certain Indian bookmakers). Mihir Bose’s vigorous, informed and at all times entertaining text is supported by an entire statistical appendix, including the scorecards of all India’s such a lot famous Take a look at matches and a table of averages of all India’s Take a look at players.


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