Re: Cricket books I've read recently
I'd actually say you must look around on the net for an extract of a
couple or more pages, then make up your mind if that stuff pleases you
- I'm pretty sure there have been extracts posted in this forum itself
from Corner of a Foreign Field.
cricketu...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Groundhog wrote:
Is Guha's "A Corner of A Foreign Field" worth spending the time on?
Depends on your perspective and what you are looking for. Guha begins
right from the early days when British army officers started playing
cricket with the native indians preparing the pitch or doing the
catering, the earliest native communities taking up the game beginning
with the Parsees, how the Hindus and Muslims started forming teams of
their own and when considerable interest was generated, the birth of
the Triangular.
Of course the intrigue is thrown in with considerable coverage given to
incidents have issues of caste and religion as the backbone. First half
of the book reads like a movie actually.
2nd half is about the post 1947 phase..Ind-Pak cricket and political
relations, commercial interests driving the game, globalization of
cricket and the game as it stands today.
If you're looking for stats, there is just the perfect amount given
that the book is spread around 110 years of history, not too much not
too little.
Intrigue and suspense, plenty of it.
The language, needless to say, is pleasant on the mind.
He doesnt bore you with the obvious stuff any fan knows about Indian
cricket(Spin Quartet, Poor record abroad, the dozen or so familiar
names of greats, Worldcup 83, Tendulkar, ODIs, etc). Quite refreshing
spread over 400+ pages.
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