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Cricket Ka Commonwealth = क्रिकेट का कॉमनवेल्थ : Vishwa ke Sabse Shishth Khel ke Saath Mera Ajivan Prem Sambandh = विश्व के सबसे शिष्ट खेल के सा आजीवन प्रेम सम्बन्ध / Ramachandra Guha.

By: Material type: TextText Harper Hindi, 2022Description: 350 Pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789354894862 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 796.358 GUH 023086
Summary: When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket the country still hadnt won a Test match overseas by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India fifty years later India had become world crickets sole superpower. Cricket ka Commonwealth the Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed The Commonwealth of Cricket is a firstperson account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India across all levels at which the game is played school college club state country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes provincial icons and international stars. Cast as a work of literature Cricket ka Commonwealth is keenly informed by the authors scholarly training the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir anecdote reportage and political critique providing a rich insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.
List(s) this item appears in: New Collection - June 2025
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When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket the country still hadnt won a Test match overseas by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India fifty years later India had become world crickets sole superpower. Cricket ka Commonwealth the Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed The Commonwealth of Cricket is a firstperson account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India across all levels at which the game is played school college club state country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes provincial icons and international stars. Cast as a work of literature Cricket ka Commonwealth is keenly informed by the authors scholarly training the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir anecdote reportage and political critique providing a rich insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.

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