Speed Merchants: The Story of Indian Pace Bowling 1880s-2019 by Gulu Ezekiel and Vijay Lokapally. Published in 2020 by Bloombury Publishing India Private Limited, Second Floor, LSC Building No. 4, DDA Complex, Pocket C-6 & 7, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070. Pp: xviii + 207. Price: Rs 499.
In the years when this reviewer commentated on Test and ODI (One Day International) cricket matches, one of his favorite expressions, a variant of an old aphorism, was: "And once again, India’s opponents make hay while the ball shines!” That was the situation in the late 1960s and early ’70s. This book tells......