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The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game's social origins. In this work, the author examines the game from its origins up to the coming of the First World War. Along the way he considers the crucial r... More

The Rupa Humour series presents rib-tickling collection of jokes on choicest themes ranging from dysfunctional families to gender politics to cross border foreign affairs to judiciary to the medical establishment etc. This series is a collaboration with one of the foremost websites for humour in Ind... More

Cricket has been he binding spirit for a fractious India, it has been opium and adrenalin, valium and vitamin. It has been social mobility, and it has been tolerance and secularism. The story of Indian cricket is the story of a society, a tapestry woven as a permanent work in progress by a nation in... More

A cricketing romp through Pakistan In early 2004, the Indian cricket team set out for Pakistan. Pundits describes the subsequent tour, detailing the matches, the moods, the games and the players. More than merely that, though, it is also a book about the first major sporting encounter between India ... More

‘You watch, drifting, surrounded by the thing. It’s like living underwater.’ This is how Men in White: A Book of Cricket,an armchair view of Test cricket, describes the experience of living with a game in a country where the sport occupies mind space like nothing else can. Muk... More

The exhilarating and troubled 25-year career of Peter Roebuck, best known to a generation of Australian cricket fans as the incisive, and sometimes controversial, cricketing voice of "ABC Radio "and the "Sydney Morning Herald," inspires this passionate and riveting autobiography that takes a deep-- ... More

Indian Prince Ranjitsinghji was the most famous cricket-player of hisgeneration. In 1924, the inhabitants of Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland,were amazed when this exotic stranger fell in love with Ballynahinch Castle anddecided to move in. Using rare documents from government and personal ar... More

This unauthorized biography details the life and accomplishments of Steve Waugh, one of Australia's cricket legends. Interviews with coaches, commentators, and other cricketers lend insights into the world of this private sports hero. In addition to telling a personal story, this volume offers a loo... More

In It Takes All Sorts, Peter Roebuck meanders through his 25-year career in reporting cricket, to reveal the people and the personalities who have touched his life and contributed to his life-long passion for the game. Roebuck provides warts-and-all insights into the comings and goings, greats and n... More

This Omnibus brings together three of his most riveting books. Sunny Days is indeed a classic, tracing his cricketing career from his childhood. In Idols, he pays tribute to thirty-one of his contemporaries from the cricketing world. One Day Wonders is a superb collection of the most memorable one d... More

India has given the world some of the most exciting cricketers in the history of the game. This book looks at fifteen of the finest. Besides playing at the very highest level of cricket (for England or, later, India) all of these players have enjoyed superb careers in English domestic cricket and ar... More

A revealing, in-depth account of the nexus between the world’s top cricketers and bookmakers On 17 March 2007, the much-fancied Pakistan team crashed out of the cricket World Cup after a surprise defeat to minnows Ireland. Even as disappointed fans reacted with anger and dismay, rumour mill... More

This is not a scorebook, nor is it an accumulation of facts or the extension of a globally recognised brand. This is the first in-depth and comprehensive biography of Sachin Tendulkar, and it puts Sachin the cricketer and the human being in perspective. Tendulkar’s story is told here grippingly, w... More

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 w... More

• Which Test opener is also a water-polo international?• Which player is the drummer in a rock band?• And when might Abdur Razzak face Abdul Razzaq?With Twenty20 matches squeezing in beside Tests and one-day internationals, there is more international cricket than ever. So how do you keep trac... More

The jargon of cricket is so rich and varied that it comprises well over 1200 terms and expressions that are used in playing the game as well as in dealing with its non-playing aspects such as record keeping, commenting and administration. The Dictionary of Cricket includes all these terms and expres... More

The Penguin World Cup Cricket Companion 2007 is the ultimate guide to cricket’s most prestigious tournament. This one-of-a-kind companion to the ninth World Cup being held in the Caribbean features: The history of World Cup cricket: brief scorecards and match summaries for every Wor... More

Are you a believer? Are you one of those who just knows India will win the match the moment the game starts? Do you drown yourself in cricket and cricket-related trivia every four years and dream of seeing India win the World Cup? If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above, here is the te... More

The story of Sourav Ganguly, the skipper of the Indian cricket team, is one full of the myriad shades of life itself, in fact it has all the ingredients of a well-made potboiler. Blessed with tremendous intelligence, he channelised it into everything: be it ‘teaching a lesson’ to all tho... More

An Indian Cricket Century is a collection of the best essays written by Dr Sujit Mukherjee, over four decades. The essays range from portraits of great cricketers like Vijay Merchant and Sunil Gavaskar to wonderfully witty recollections of cricket as played in locations like Patna and Philadelphia. ... More