A History Of Indian Cricket

Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 023305040X

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A History of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose Pdf

In this book, Mihir Bose examines the rollercoaster nature of India's cricket history, from its early days in the time of the British Raj to the present day period that has been characterised by both the sublime (the batting mastery of Sachin Tendulkar) and the ridiculous (the match-fixing scandals associated with the nefarious activities of certain Indian bookmakers). Mihir Bose's lively, informed, and always entertaining text is supported by a full statistical appendix.

Author : Venkat Sundaram
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9789356994164

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Indian Cricket by Venkat Sundaram Pdf

With a Foreword by Rahul Dravid A tribute to the beautiful game of cricket, played the India way. Starting with the very first Test match that India played in 1932, Indian Cricket chronicles a remarkable journey, highlighting key moments in the country's cricketing history over the last century or so: from the incredible Test wins in the 1970s and the thrilling World Cup wins of 1983 and 2011 to the emergence of the Indian Premier League, the evolution of women's cricket, the development of world-class ground facilities and the appearance of the 'superfit' Indian cricketer. Alongside, it celebrates some true cricketing legends: from C.K. Nayudu, Vijay Hazare, Vijay Merchant, Nari Contractor, Tiger Pataudi, Ajit Wadekar, Salim Durrani and the Spin Quartet to Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Vishwanath, Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar, Anil Kumble, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli. A collection of fifty informative and anecdotal articles by cricketers as well as leading writers on cricket, Indian Cricket: Then and Now is a book that cricket aficionados of all ages will enjoy.

Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cricket
ISBN : UVA:X002181952

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A History of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose Pdf

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000060537720

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The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket by Boria Majumdar Pdf

History of Indian cricket

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317970125

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Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947 by Boria Majumdar Pdf

This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper middle classes well over a century ago. Indeed, in some ways, the democratization of the sport anticipated the democratization of the Indian polity itself. Boria Majumdar reveals the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist ends. He exposes a sport rooted in the contingencies of the colonial and post-colonial context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Cricket, to put it simply, is much more than a ‘game’ for Indians. This study describes how the genealogy of their intense engagement with cricket stretches back over a century. It is concerned not only with the game but also with the end of cricket as a mere sport, with Indian cricket’s commercial revolution in the 1930s, with ideals and idealism and their relative unimportance, with the decline of morality for reasons of realpolitik, and with the denunciation, once and for all, of the view that sport and politics do not mix. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789351186939

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A Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra Guha Pdf

A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.

Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134249237

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The Magic of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose Pdf

In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the first time a developing country has become a major player in the international sports arena. This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Bose's classic history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon. Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal experience, Bose traces the development of the Indian game from its beginnings as a colonial pastime to its coming of age as a national passion and now a global commercial powerhouse. This illuminating study reveals Indian cricket's central place in modern India’s identity, culture and society. Insightful, honest and challenging, Bose tackles the myths and controversies of Indian cricket. He considers the game in terms of race, caste, politics, national consciousness and ambition, money, celebrity and the media, evoking all the unpredictability, frustration and glory that is the magic of Indian cricket.

Author : Prashant Kidambi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198843139

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Cricket Country by Prashant Kidambi Pdf

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.

Author : James Astill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620401231

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The Great Tamasha by James Astill Pdf

To understand modern India, one must look at the business of cricket within the country. When Lalit Modi--an Indian businessman with a criminal record, a history of failed business ventures, and a reputation for audacious deal making--created a Twenty20 cricket league in India in 2008, the odds were stacked against him. International cricket was still controlled from London, where they played the long, slow game of Test cricket by the old rules. Indians had traditionally underperformed in the sport but the game remained a national passion. Adopting the highly commercial American model of sporting tournaments, and throwing scantily clad western cheerleaders into the mix, Modi gave himself three months to succeed. And succeed he did--dazzlingly--before he and his league crashed to earth amid astonishing scandal and corruption. The emergence of the IPL is a remarkable tale. Cricket is at the heart of the miracle that is modern India. As a business, it represents everything that is most dynamic and entrepreneurial about the country's economic boom, including the industrious and aspiring middle-class consumers who are driving it. The IPL also reveals, perhaps to an unprecedented degree, the corrupt, back-scratching, and nepotistic way in which India is run. A truly original work by a brilliant journalist, The Great Tamasha* makes the complexity of modern India--its aspiration and optimism straining against tradition and corruption--accessible like no other book has. *Tamasha: a Hindi world meaning "a spectacle."

Author : Michael Manley
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 023305037X

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A History of West Indies Cricket by Michael Manley Pdf

In 1975, the West Indies became the first winners of the cricket World Cup. Their style of cricket has always been ideal for this type of game; exhilarating, stroke-making batsmen; penetrative, wicket-taking bowlers and dynamic, athletic fielders. For 15 years between 1976 and 1991, the West Indies ruled the cricket world in imperious style. This book will highlight the sad demise of West Indian cricket, as the accessibility of cable television has shown youngsters in the Caribbean other sports, ones which offer untold wealth to even those of moderate professional standard.

Author : Edward Wybergh Docker
Publisher : Delhi : Macmillan Company of India
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cricket
ISBN : UOM:39015046340942

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History of Indian Cricket by Edward Wybergh Docker Pdf

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9789386797193

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Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians by Boria Majumdar Pdf

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886—taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPL—to provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game. Equally, it comes with material that has have never entered the public domain so far—going behind the scenes of cases like Monkeygate, the suspension of Lalit Modi, spot-fixing, and the phase of judicial intervention. It carries not just reportage and analysis, but also player reminiscences, personal interviews, photographs and letters never known or discussed so far in Indian sporting discourse. Weaving together such material, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unflinchingly confronts questions that demand answering, among them: Has internal bickering impacted the on field performance of the Indian cricket team? Did some of our icons fail the country and the sport by trying to conceal important facts during the spot-fixing investigation? And does it matter to the ordinary fan who heads the BCCI as long as there is transparency and accountability in the system? In the end, in telling the story of the role of cricket in colonial and post-colonial Indian life, and the inter-relationship between those who patronize, promote, play and view the sport. Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unravels the story of a nation now considered the financial nerve centre of world cricket.

Author : Ronojoy Sen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231539937

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Nation at Play by Ronojoy Sen Pdf

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cricket
ISBN : IND:30000116095500

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The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket by Boria Majumdar Pdf

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781509841400

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The Picador Book of Cricket by Ramachandra Guha Pdf

A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.