Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer

Language: English
Pages: 180 (14 B/W Illustrations)







About the Book

Test cricket is all about a few people playing
and many people watching. But what about the cricket most of us have played -
in back-gardens and by-lanes, in school and in college, for a club or for one's
employer - which not many have watched and nobody, at least in India, has
written about?

This book looks back fondly upon such cricket
played at various levels, all of which lead upwards, narrowing inexorably, to
the apex. The author may not have reached there - otherwise you would have
known of him as a player - but he has enjoyed every run he scored, every wicket
taken, every catch held. That enjoyment he has sought to convey on each page
here.

About the Author

Sujit Mukherjee (b. 1930) has played cricket
on many grounds and at various levels, read more cricket books and articles
than he has written, and occasionally been a Test-match commentator on radio
and television. At least once every season he goes to the ground to watch a
game being played, just to assure himself that this is what the real thing is like. A former university teacher, he also writes
literary criticism and translates from Bangla into English.

Pretext

This autobiography of an unknown Indian
cricketer has been written in the belief that there are countless others like
me in India whose aspirations, whether realized or not, have gone into building
this game into the enormous institution it has become today