Author: Rajan Bala
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 278
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129105810
Description
Ever since India started playing Test cricket in 1932, the game in this country has been full of incidents. This book is a study of the socio-historical aspects of Indian cricket, and deals with the trials, tribulations and successes of all the twenty-eight Test captains that the country has had right till Rahul Dravid.
It reveals how the game went through various twists and turns during the time each led the country-the players and what they experienced, their backgrounds and relevant issues. Not merely a history of the game in India, the work delves deeper into the psyche of players, captains and selectors offering rare insights into their doubts, inhibitions, ambitions and frustrations, and why they did what hey did, what Indian cricket was and what it is.
The author being in the privileged position of being able to say-I have met them, I know them, I was there and I have sent it-this work provides a ringside view of Indian crickets as it has been from the 1930s right till the beginning of this century.
Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Indian Cricket-A Ringside View
1990 Onwards-The Money Game
The Board of Control for Cricket in India
The Pioneering Captains-Nayudu and Vizzy
A Decade of Turbulence (1937-47) and Pataudi
The Odd Man Out
Captains-1947-1959
Tiger Pataudi led the Renaissance
Triumph, Defeat, Dejection and a Revival
The Happening Decade
The Team of the Nineties and thereafter
When Players Become Pawns
Some General Thoughts and Observations
EPILOGUE