Cricket Country . The Untold History of the First All India Team by Prashant Kidambi. Published in 2019 by Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 7th Floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122002; website: www.penguin.co.in. Pp: xvii + 453. Price: Rs 699.
I thought I knew everything about Indian cricket till I read Prashant Kidambi’s (pictured) well researched and interestingly presented book Cricket Country. Apart from history of Indian cricket starting from 1870s, the book is illustrated with 16 pages of rare photographs, cartoons, press clippings and autographs. The photograph which amused and angered me at the same......