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245 00 $aEleven gods and a billion Indians :$bthe on and off the field story of cricket in India and beyond /$cBoria Majumdar.
264 1 $aNew Delhi :$bSimon & Schuster India,$c2018.
300 $a1 online resource (xxi, 450 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :$billustrations (black and white, and colour
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520 $aEleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886-taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPL-to provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game. Equally, it comes with material that has have never entered the public domain so far-going behind the scenes of cases like Monkeygate, the suspension of Lalit Modi, spot-fixing, and the phase of judicial intervention. It carries not just reportage and analysis, but also player reminiscences, personal interviews, photographs and letters never known or discussed so far in Indian sporting discourse. Weaving together such material, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unflinchingly confronts questions that demand answering, among them: Has internal bickering impacted the on field performance of the Indian cricket team? Did some of our icons fail the country and the sport by trying to conceal important facts during the spot-fixing investigation? And does it matter to the ordinary fan who heads the BCCI as long as there is transparency and accountability in the system? In the end, in telling the story of the role of cricket in colonial and post-colonial Indian life, and the inter-relationship between those who patronize, promote, play and view the sport. Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unravels the story of a nation now considered the financial nerve centre of world cricket. * A book on India's most popular sport, cricket, packed with dramatic anecdotes and photographs entering the public domain for the very first time. * Authored by bestselling author and one of India's best-known sports journalists Boria Majumdar. * Receiving early praise from such stalwarts as Sourav Ganguly, Michael Clarke, Nasser Hussain, Vinod Rai and Abhinav Bindra.
588 0 $aPrint version record.
505 0 $aHalf Title; Title Page; Dedication; PROLOGUE; PART ONE; THE CURSE OF FIXING: PRELUDE TO THE MODERN GAME; REDEMPTION SONG: INSPIRE AND IGNITE: THE MIRACLE OF 2001; WHEN THE SEPOYS BATTED FOR INDIA; OVERCOMING THE ODDS OVERSEAS; CHALLENGING THE CHAPPELL SHENANIGANS; THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CAPTAIN-COACH COMBINE; PART TWO; CRICKET'S CASH BOX REVOLUTION; SOAPS, SERIALS AND POLITICS: CRICKET AND TELEVISION IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA; MONKEYGATE; IPL: THE BILLION DOLLAR BABY; SKY-FALL; GOD-BYE; WHAT DO THEY KNOW OF CRICKET?; MISPLACED AMBITION FOR WORLD DOMINATION: THE BIG THREE CARTEL AND THE ICC
505 8 $aPART THREERENAISSANCE AT MIDNIGHT; CRICKET'S TRYST WITH DESTINY: LORDING IT AT LORD'S; ELEVEN GODS AND A BILLION INDIANS; PART FOUR; RANJI: LOVE, LIFE AND CRICKET; THE COLONIAL IPL: BOMBAY PENTANGULAR, 1892-1946; THE DEBUT YEARS AND THE POLITICAL BACKSTAGE; CLASH OF THE TITANS; THE ROYAL BENGAL BATTLE; THE AMARNATH-DE MELLO AFFAIR; EGO VERSUS PERFORMANCE; PART FIVE; THE PRESENT INTO THE FUTURE: VIRAT KOHLI AND A BILLION DREAMS; UNFINISHED BUSINESS; POSTSCRIPT: THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM AND NOT THE WOMEN'S CRICKET TEAM; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Copyright
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