Mid-Wicket Tales: From Trumper to Tendulkar
About this ebook
Even as the essays reflect the authors’ passion for the game, there is a perspective, balance and tolerant objectivity right through the book. Thus, if they lavish praise on Rahul Dravid for his batting or the wondrous all-round skills of Garry Sobers or the incomparable slip catching of Bobby Simpson, they also admire the less successful test cricketers, for there are just a few thousand test players in 137 years of international cricket.
It is the sort of book one can reach out and spend 30 minutes on any number of occasions, just like meeting old friends.
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About the author
S. Giridhar is Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He writes regularly drawing upon his experiences in the education sector and these essays have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Indian Express, the Hindu, FirstPost.com and Seminar magazine. He played inter-school and city cricket tournaments. He played his best cricket in his late thirties and wishes he had played like that in his younger days.
V. J. Raghunath is a retired chemical engineer who now consults with Azim Premji Foundation. He was a very stylish left-handed batsman and a fearless close-in fielder who thrilled his coaches in school. He was awarded the A. F. Wensley prize for the most promising schoolboy cricketer for three years running. He led the Madras Colts team to Bombay in 1968 and played first-division league with the best cricketers of Madras and Bombay in his twenties.