{"product_id":"9789354898488_cricket-ka-commonwealth","title":"Cricket Ka Commonwealth","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't 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 cricket's sole superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCricket ka Commonwealth, \u003c\/em\u003ethe Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Commonwealth of Cricket\u003c\/em\u003e, is a first-person 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCast as a work of literature, \u003cem\u003eCricket ka Commonwealth\u003c\/em\u003e is keenly informed by the author's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramachandra Guha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46900147880085,"sku":"9789354898488","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9789354898488.jpg?v=1776992122","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9789354898488_cricket-ka-commonwealth","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}