Caught & Told

Foreword by Greg Chappel:
Caught & Told:Humorous Cricketing Anecdotes is a compilation of real-life cricket stories collected by Sandeep Patil, a famous prankster during his playing days, and Clayton Murzello, sports editor of Mid-Day, India’s largest selling tabloid. Anyone who loves his cricket will relish these locker-room and playing-field anecdotes involving the famous names of Indian cricket from across several generations. The anecdotes bring alive the players and the different eras they played in, and evoke the timeless charm and spirit of the game.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Sandeep Patil, born in 1956, was one of the most entertaining players on the international stage in the 1980s. In his five-year-long international career he came up with some sterling performances. In Australia in 1980-81 he took on the likes of Dennis Lillee, Len Pascoe and Rodney Hogg to plunder 174 at the Adelaide Oval. If that was his finest hour, he gave power hitting a good name when he scored 24 off Bob Willis in a single over at Old Trafford in 1982.

When not wielding his willow, Patil had other interests and these included editing a Marathi magazine called Shatkar. He is a known prankster and is never short of a story, some of which have made it to this collection of anecdotes.

Clayton Murzello once sold sports books at Marine Sports, the only specialist sports bookshop in India, before deciding to get closer to his favourite sport, cricket. He leapt into journalism in 1989 and today is Sports Editor of Mid-Day, IndiaÕs largest-selling tabloid. Murzello has covered cricket in five countries, and been to two World Cups. At the 2005 Sports Journalists Federation of India awards, Murzello won the prize for the best offbeat story.