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Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: 2000. Millennium's Greatest Indian Cricketers by Ravi Chaturvedi |
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 2000, Saru Prakashan, pbk Rare. In stock, click to buy for £250, not including post and packing (£2.80 for UK buyers - signed & recorded post) Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book/synopsis: The author Ravi Chaturvedi's passion for cricket began in 1945 when at the end of World War 2, his parents moved from Lucknow to Delhi and he came into direct contact with the British Army returning to barracks after active service. In the evenings and on Sundays, the Army Officers would organise cricket matches, which Ravi would go and watch and which captivated him. His actual love affair with cricket started in 1945 at the Roshanara Club in Delhi, where an Indian XI and an Australian XI crossed swords in an event which he has never forgotten due to the exploits of Hassett-Miller and Amarnath-Mushtaq on the green. Since that fateful day, he has seen many ups and downs for Indian Cricket; he took to cricket commentary in 1962 and had covered more than 105 tests and 152 one-day internationals, both for Radio and TV by the time this book was published. He covered the Indian tour of the West Indies in 1976 where he was also a guest commentator for the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation. Since then he has been considered an expert on Caribbean cricket. His first book, incidentally, was 'West Indies-India Test Cricket'. He covered the twin tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1980-81 and was the guest commentator on New Zealand TV in the same year. In 1994, World Tel asked him to join its panel of international commentators where he shared the mike with such greats of the cricket game as Sir Garfield Sobers, 'Tiger' Pataudi, Glenn Turner, Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and distinguised broadcaster Henry Blofeld. He joined the STAR SPORTS commentary team in 1996 at Singapore, Sharjah, West Indies and England. Ravi was also on the TWI commentary team for the India-New Zealand series in 1999 and technically is regarded as the best Hindi cricket commentator who understands the nuances of the game. This is combined with a ready wit and a phenomenal memory able to recall incidents and episodes with which he enriches his outstanding commentary. It's understandable therefore that the author has gained his own legend, that of 'Panditji' - 'the knowledgeable one,' a title which he has felt under pressure to live up to with this book - making the titans of cricket stride across the field in a way in which the audience can recognise the description of that cricketer and understand why that cricketer is in the list. For the benefit of this summary page, he states that he selected the cricketers in this book based on their pioneering efforts, pivotal role or legendary status inside Indian cricket: Contents: |
Books About India's Cricketers Indian Cricket |
 1991, Bellew Publishing In stock, click to buy for £8.20, not including post and packing Alternative online retailers to try: Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Or click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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Contents: The Pat Barrie Reminiscences The Educated Evans Stories Sportingalities Golden Rules of Racing Lord Derby's Racing Memories The Short Stories |
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