da betsson： In an age when commerce has overwritten storytelling about the game, two amateur players and fans put their affection for cricket on the page
da realbet： Sharda Ugra18-Jan-2015In a year when Kevin Pietersen and Sachin Tendulkar released their autobiographies at the tail-end of their glittering international careers came , said that the “art of storytelling in cricket needs to be revived”. He asked whether all that was being propagated today was the “science and the scandal of the game? Or indeed its commerce?” It is true that contemporary cricket writing has changed over the last quarter of a century because cricket has changed too. Journalists have, as is their professional duty and instinctive habit, “followed the story”. The commerce has written over the storytelling, the philosophy and more. It has generated every scandal that the game has witnessed over the last decade.Reading Mid-wicket Tales helps illuminate why sticking a torch into the scandal and the commerce is more necessary than it has ever been. It is a mandatory requirement in order to do what Giridhar and Raghunath so passionately talk about – win cricket back from the commerce and the spin and put it back into the heart of the game again.Mid-wicket Tales: From Trumper to Tendulkar
By S Giridhar and VJ Raghunath
Sage Publications India, 322 pages
Rs 525
This review was first published in Biblio