Cricket
58 books
Hero: A Biography of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is the story of an extraordinary cricketer and the first sportsperson to be conferred the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour. This book showcases the evolution of an incredibly talented teenager from a middle-class household of Mumbai into a world champion and a legend. Starting off with his childhood and early days as a cricketer, the book takes the reader through the pulls and pressures and the ...
The IPL extravaganza had transformed the world of cricket and captured the imaginations of cricket lovers like never before. Yet, after a mere three years, the innovation that had seemed to herald a new dawn in sport has degenerated into a series of accusations and counter-accusations, allegations of corruption, and never-ending controversies. What went wrong? And is it at all possible for the IPL to survive this debacle?
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The name Bishan Singh Bedi conjures up one of the finest bowling actions in cricket poetry in motion. The most successful of India’s legendary spin quartet of the 1970s, Bedi played 67 Tests and picked up 266 wickets, making him the highest Indian wicket-taker at the time. He was a master of deception who combined variations in flight, spin and pace to beguile the best of batsmen. Playing at a time when Indian cricket was just coming into its own, he ...
On 2 April 2011 after twenty eight years the Cricket World Cup returned to India when Dhoni’s boys beat SriLanka in a nail-biting finish that ended in a shower of champagne and confetti. They had started the tournament as favourites but in the early stages the Indian team had appeared shaky barely holding their own against even the less fancied teams. Then came the turning point Pakistan beat Australia ending their decade-long supremacy in one-day cricket ...
The real story of Pakistan's most flamboyant figure. In Politics, in Sports. In Austerity, in Indulgence.In summer of 1996 when Imran Khan slipped into a politician's attire, he was hailed as the agent of change. A decade later when he is on the verge of adulthood in his political innings, he is revered and reviled alike for being one of few honest political animals in his battered homeland as he is ridiculed for his off-and-on tryst with night-out in ...
Fast-paced and dramatic much like a great game of cricket James Alters A History of the Cricket World Cup captures the nine previous World Cups in all their moods and hues from Indias exhilarating win in 1983 to Pakistan coach Bob Woolmers controversy-ridden death during World Cup 2007. Carefully yet seamlessly imbricated in the text are photographs that supplement the moments and help relive the memories. Imbuing further emotion are personal accounts of those ...
When India participated in World Cup ’83 the team was billed as the ‘dark horse’ by some cricketing pundits. But nobody really expected them to win. Indian team had performed dismally in the two previous editions of the World Cup. But then, the 1983 Squad was different; each player in that team dreamt big, worked hard on his individual strengths, contributed more than a hundred percent to the team’s effort and what is more, enjoyed playing ...
This is the story of a unique XI made up of cricketers--among them, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, Munaf Patel and S. Sreesanth--who made the leap from the hinterland to centre stage.Difficult as it is to become a top-flight cricketer in India, it is doubly so for those growing up in small towns and villages. Yet there have been inspiring exceptions who have not let place names such as Azamgarh, Davangere, Ikhar, Jalandhar, ...
Here’s a book that will help you navigate your way through the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. Filled with fun facts, quick and quirky history, tell-your-friends-about-it trivia, games, cartoons and information about key players, teams and even stadia, this is the ideal companion to enjoy the World Cup with!So if you want to know: Who was the person who witnessed two ten-wicket hauls forty-three years apart; How cricket got its name (Wooden planks, wicket gates ...
Its exactly twenty-five years after India's spectacular World Cup victory at Lords, and Indian Cricket Captain Mayank Pradhan is preparing for the match of his life : the twenty20 World Cup Final. While an entire nation waits for the finals with bated breath, Mayank learns that some of his team mates have been bought by bookies. As Mayank grapples with myriad emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India’s abysmal showing at the ...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is as calm and unruffled a sportsman on the field as he is self-effacing off it. But 'brute strength', 'murderous form' and 'a man possessed' were some of the phrases that came to mind when, on 5 April 2005 in Vishakapatnam, he exploded onto international consciousness by becoming the first regular Indian keeper to score a one-day century. Captain Cool is the story of M.S.Dhoni, Indian cricket's poster boy; it is ...
In the twenty years that he has been in the public eye, Sachin Tendulkar has been explosive on the cricket field and just as reticent off it. He was barely fifteen years old when the first wrote his name into record books with a stupendous 664-run partnership with his childhood friend Vinod Kambli. A few months later, he struck his first century in first class cricket. At seventeen he became the second youngest man to make a hundered in international cricket, and ...
As the name signifies, the book 'Indian Cricket: Faces that changed it', will flash the golden past of the 'realities' of Indian Cricketers where their contribution to the game is adored leading the readers to realize how yesteryears' Indian Cricket used to be.The book uniquely describes the profiles of the glorious cricketers, together with data and statistics – their achievement and their stories. The book highlights the great effort ...
Shadows across the Playing Field tells the story of the turbulent cricketing relations between India and Pakistan through the eyes of two men - Shashi Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan - who bring to the task not only great love of the game but also deep knowledge of subcontinental politics and diplomacy. Shashi Tharoor, a former UN Under-Secretary-General and man of letters, is a passionate outsider, whose comprehensive, entertaining and hard-hitting analysis of sixty ...