Latest book Cricket Across Dark Waters. Also Elephant in the Stadium (Times' Best Cricket Book 2022 Shortlist CWC BoY, Sports Book Awards BoY) [email protected]
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In The Times:
"It was a quiet year for cricket books, but arguably the best is Elephant in the Stadium, by Arunabha Sengupta, which is a social history and as much about the legacy of colonialism as it is about India’s first Test series win in England in 1971."
- Alyson Rudd.
Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
Has anyone experienced discriminatory gate personnel @Ryanair in Dublin ? I with my family just did and it was shocking. The tone of address and the mishandling of procedure and threatening behavior. Unacceptable for any passenger. First bad experience in Dublin
Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
Stories Behind Books: Elementary My Dear Wodehouse
@stock_delivery looks at the new book by @senantix Arunabha Sengupta that brings together Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse.
#cricket #books #sherlockholmes #wodehouse
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We keep hearing how important Test cricket is, but where are the fans in South Africa? Empty stands, no atmosphere, and we’re supposed to believe the format is thriving? You can’t keep calling Test cricket the pinnacle of the game if no one turns up to watch it. Harsh reality, but someone has to say it. Pathetic
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Next in the 'Stories Behind Books' @cricmash
:Elementary, My Dear Wodehouse by @senantix
Featuring Trumper, Armstrong, Fry, Bosanquet,..
Also Chesterton, Hardy, Conan Doyle and of course Wodehouse.
If you've read Wodehouse, this will make you reread.
If you haven't, you will now!
The game is afoot...
But that is not Watson, is it?
Watch this space
#comingsoon #sherlockholmes
A three-pipe problem?
Introducing a few characters from the forthcoming book. Can you identify all of them?
Name to be revealed soon.
#comingsoon #watchthisspace
#caseisstillbeingmade – at Ouder-Amstel, Nederland
Cover Reveal in Phases...
A bit of it revealed....
There are plenty of other elements, but at the end of the day it's elementary.
Watch this space.
#announcement #caseisstillbeingmade
Cover Reveal in Phases...
What is the subject? One wonders.
But in some ways, it's elementary.
Watch this space.
#caseisstillbeingmade
NEW BOOK:
Cover Reveal in parts
The colour combination is here ...
Full cover, subject, period, title etc. will be revealed during the next few days.
Watch this space.
#announcement #cricketbooks
A bit about Ranji from Elephant in the Stadium.
amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1801…
India: amazon.in/dp/949220312X
#caseisstillbeingmade
Couldn't play the Lord's Test -Lord Harris didn't like birds of passage
62 & 154* on debut
989 runs @ 44.95 in Tests, 58 100s for Sussex
Runs of curious arcs - never a Christian stroke.
Prince of a Small State but King of a Great Game. Ranji born #onthisday 1872
#cricketcounts
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There are great benefits as laid out below. You can see @ZaltzCricket also agrees.
To become a member simply go to acscricket.com and follow the link 'Join the ACS'
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Lesson for England, Australia looked vulnerable.
Bangladesh is just incidental in a reflection on Bangladesh's first Test win in Australia.
#cricket #parochialism #elitism #timeshavemovedon #not1921anymore #Ashes #overrated – at Amstelveen, Nederland
Sherlock Holmes was there on that day.
One of the ten best cricket books I have read - Stephen Chalke
He knows his stuff - David Frith
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203014 – at Amstelveen, Nederland
Sammy Jones runout as he pats a divot
"I taught the lad a lesson"
"This will cost you the match"
85 to win
"This Thing Can Be Done"
"I couldn't troost Mister Stood"
"I left 6 men to score 30 odd runs"
The Doctor & the Demon
Birth of The Ashes
#onthisday 1882
#cricketcounts
When we keep repeating cricket is a gentleman's game, this is what we actually imply.
Not angelic souls not running non-strikers out even when they are halfway down the wicket before the ball is bowled.
Cyril Walters born #onthisday 1905 did well enough in his 11 Tests
What is jarring is that he captained England in his 7th Test
Wyatt had a broken thumb, but Hammond & Sutcliffe were there, as was Hendren
But cricket was a Gentleman's game!
At least captaincy was.
#cricketcounts
An ethnic Indian scoring a hundred for the West Indies Test team against India in India - complex layers of inter-connected history.
Extract from Cricket Across Dark Waters
#caseisstillbeingmade
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
Ind: amazon.in/dp/9492203219/
He famously made the direct hit resulting in the 1st tied Test
We forget Joe Solomon born #onthisday 1930 also got 65 & 47 in the match
One of the 1st WI Test players of Ind ethnicity, he was a solid bat, a regular in the great 1960s side
#cricketcounts
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Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
A certain @senantix wrote a book on it.
And our own @cricketslave was right at the ground watching this.
Elephant at The Oval?! 🐘
Do you know the story behind this bizarre incident?
Let us know 💬
Hint: It happened #OnThisDay in 1971 👀
What went on to become subject of this book ..
"Best cricket book of 2022" - The Times
Shortlisted for Cricket Writers Club and Heartaches Cricket Book of the Year awards.
It covers a lot more than just that Test and that tour though.
#caseisstillbeingmade – at Amstelveen, Nederland
The day the elephant entered the stadium
There'd been no newspaper coverage when Ind side arrived in Eng for that summer
But #onthisday 1971 they beat Eng in Eng for 1st time & won the series
An amazing Chandra spell (6/38) did it for them
#cricketcounts
youtube.com/watch?v=giGDZBib…
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On paper it was vs Aus
But he faced Vorster & Apartheid SA while traditional old-boys' cronies stood waiting for a snick
His 158 @ The Oval #onthisday 1968 was followed by serious duplicity on part of selectors, but finally led to D'Oliveira affair & SAn isolation
#cricketcounts
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What happened during, before and after the D'Oliveria affair.
All in this superb book by @senantix
"Cricket book with a conscience" - Gideon Haigh
"Written at galloping pace, an extraordinary book" - David Frith
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203030
On paper it was vs Aus
But he faced Vorster & Apartheid SA while traditional old-boys' cronies stood waiting for a snick
His 158 @ The Oval #onthisday 1968 was followed by serious duplicity on part of selectors, but finally led to D'Oliveira affair & SAn isolation
#cricketcounts
Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
Lord's #onthisday 1987
Start of the MCC Bicentenary Match.
Sunil Gavaskar's final f-c 100 in his final f-c match.
However, during the match he was refused entry by Lord's stewards. This wouldn't be the last time.
It led to his refusal to accept MCC membership
#cricketcounts
