Ramachandra Guha once said he writes on history for a living and on cricket to live. The States of Indian Cricket marries the craft of history to the life of cricket in India and is described by its author as 'the product of a lifelong addiction to the most sophisticated sport known to humankind.'
Exapnding and updating the material in his two earlier cricket classicas , Guha here draws upon the memories of several generations of cricket lovers to give us wonderful sketches of India's cricketers, the forgotten as well as the from C.K. Nayadu and Vinoo Mankad to Virendra Sehwag and Javagal Srinath.
Ramachandra Guha once said he writes on history for a living and on cricket to live. The States of Indian Cricket marries the craft of history to the life of cricket in India and is described by its author as 'the product of a lifelong addiction to the most sophisticated sport known to humankind.'
Exapnding and updating the material in his two earlier cricket classicas , Guha here draws upon the memories of several generations of cricket lovers to give us wonderful sketches of India's cricketers, the forgotten as well as the from C.K. Nayadu and Vinoo Mankad to Virendra Sehwag and Javagal Srinath.