The Picador Book Of Cricket
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The Picador Book Of Cricket
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Author : Ramachandra Guha
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-06-30
The Picador Book Of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
The Picador Book Of Cricket
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Author : Ramachandra Guha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Picador Book Of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Cricket categories.
Contributed articles.
The Picador Book Of Sportswriting
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Author : Nick Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
Release Date : 1996
The Picador Book Of Sportswriting written by Nick Coleman and has been published by Trans-Atlantic Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This anthology contains the best British and American writing on sports such as football, cricket, boxing, horse-racing and baseball.
A Corner Of A Foreign Field
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Author : Ramachandra Guha
language : en
Publisher: Random House India
Release Date : 2016-11-24
A Corner Of A Foreign Field written by Ramachandra Guha and has been published by Random House India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-24 with History categories.
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.
Cricket Literature And Culture
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Author : Anthony Bateman
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Cricket Literature And Culture written by Anthony Bateman and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s, with an in-depth look at cricket during the interwar period and the sport's transmission throughout the British empire. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, and poetry, Bateman elaborates how the long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning.
The Commonwealth Of Cricket A Lifelong Love Affair With The Most Subtle And Sophisticated Game Known To Humankind
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Author : Ramachandra Guha
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2020-11-12
The Commonwealth Of Cricket A Lifelong Love Affair With The Most Subtle And Sophisticated Game Known To Humankind written by Ramachandra Guha and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.
Selection Day
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Author : Aravind Adiga
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-03
Selection Day written by Aravind Adiga and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Fiction categories.
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Amnesty, a “ferociously brilliant” (Slate) novel about two brothers coming of age in a Mumbai slum, raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be cricket champions. *A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn’t know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju meets Radha’s great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in Manju’s world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will challenge his sense of self and of the world around him. Filled with unforgettable characters from across India’s social strata—the old scout everyone calls Tommy Sir; Anand Mehta, the big-dreaming investor; Sofia, a wealthy, beautiful girl and the boys’ biggest fan—Selection Day “brings a family, a city, and an entire country to scabrous and antic life” (Chicago Tribune).
What S Wrong With You Karthik
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Author : Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-08-07
What S Wrong With You Karthik written by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-07 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing ‘Fun, entertaining, delightful’ — Rahul Dravid ‘A warm, minutely detailed evocation of boyhood . . . textured like life itself’ — Samanth Subramanian A charming tale of a young schoolboy trying to find his place in a changing world. Twelve-year-old Karthik Subramanian has just been granted admission into St George’s, an elite boys’ school in Bangalore that has supported the academic lives of ‘four state cricketers, one India captain, tens of professors, hundreds of doctors, engineers and scientists, thousands of chartered accountants ...’ In this most exalted of institutions, Karthik yearns for recognition as an academic superstar. Rigorously prepped by his parents and grandfather, dutifully offering his prayers to Lord Ganesha, Karthik steps into this new world. But nothing has prepared him for the challenges that lie in wait and he is left to himself to navigate the cruelties of school life, and the transition into adolescence. The less his family learns about his friends, the better. There are threats all around, even violence. Brilliant in its observations of a motley cast of characters, and finely calibrated for humour and sadness, What’s Wrong with You, Karthik? is a poignant, exuberant debut from a writer of rare calibre.
Indo Australian Relations
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Author : Phillip Darby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Indo Australian Relations written by Phillip Darby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Political Science categories.
This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states. It examines how race, class and gender shape conceptions of the two nations, whose voices are heard and whose are not, and the politics that emerge from sport, culture, the drive for development as well as from language and the poetic. The book seeks to challenge the primacy of the state in determining the character of the nation and its monopoly of relations with other peoples. To this end, it looks to everyday life to find linkages not only between India and Australia but also extending through the South and Southeast Asian regions. This book was published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.
No Ball
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Author : Chandramohan Puppala
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-04-11
No Ball written by Chandramohan Puppala and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-11 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Whispers, and then some progressively loud murmurs! Match fixing and illegal betting had begun to pervade the cricketing world. In 2000, when the much respected South African skipper, Hansie Cronje, was found guilty of match fixing soon after a trail of stars fell after the another. Prominent cricketers from India, South Africa, Kenya, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistan, came out as fixers over the next decade. Life bans were handed out like sixes on no balls! The scandal really hit home in 2013, when spot-fixing allegations in the Indian Premier League resulted in the ouster of Indian and Rajasthan Royals bowler Sreesanth, along with two other players. This incident threw open the murky underworld connection – quite literally – in Indian cricket. For the first time, journalist Chandramohan Puppala traces cricket's biggest corruption back to the kingpin Dawood Ibrahim himself. Based on transcripts of police-recorded conversations and unpublished information about the players at the key of the storm, including some of India's biggest names, No Ball is a revealing account of the rot at the heart of Indian cricket.