Books and Authors: The Cricket Series

Post-2009 T20 World Cup Special…

Great Expectations — Anonymous Indian cricket fan

A House Divided — Anonymous sports TV reporter

A Burnt Out Case — Anonymous Indian player

A Farewell to the Cup — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold — Another anonymous sports TV reporter

Paradise Lost — Another anonymous Indian Fan

The Fourth Estate and How I Could Kill Them Right Now — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Heartbreak House — Yet another anonymous Indian Fan

Dhoni’s Last Sigh? — Yet another anonymous sports TV reporter

Everybody Loves a Good Defeat (or How to Create Controversies and Make TRP Ratings Soar) — Anonymous

Decline and Fall of the Indian Empire — Ravi Shastri

Three Mediamen and the new Apocalypse — Ajay Jadeja

Circle of UnReason — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nice Guys Finish Second — Tillakaratne Dilshan

IPL2 Special…

The Devil Wears Baggy Greens — Sourav Ganguly

The World is Flat: I Can Host the IPL Anywhere I Like — Lalit Modi

Letters from the Field — An anonymous KKR blogger

The Diary of a Frank Blogger — The very same anonymous KKR blogger

Spycatcher: How I Caught The Anonymous Blogger, Kicked Him Out and Still Finished Last in the Table — John Buchanan

Midnight’s Children: The T20 Generation — Lalit Modi

The Prince Becomes the Pauper — Sourav Ganguly

The State of Pakistan Series…

No Passage to India — Ijaz Butt

No Train to Pakistan — Sharad Pawar

100 Months of Solitude: The Future of Pakistan Cricket — Imran Khan

All’s Well That Ends Well — Shahid Afridi

The Waste Land: A Story of Stadiums Around Pakistan — Javed Miandad

Apocalypse Not Now (I Hope!) — Imran Khan

Arms and the Cricketer — Anonymous Taliban soldier

Asian Drama — ICC

All of Us in Terrorland — Mahela Jayawardene

Man of Destiny — Younis Khan

Pakistan: The Gathering Storm — Imran Khan

The Lost World (and How Pakistan May Become It) — Ijaz Butt

General Reading

Mother — Geoffrey Boycott

Red Earth and Pouring Rain — Frank Duckworth & Tony Lewis

Cricketers are from Mars, Fans are from Venus — Rahul Dravid

Such a Long Journey — Sachin Tendulkar

Far from the Madding Crowd — Rahul Dravid

Heat and Dust and Bombs: My India Tour Story — Kevin Pietersen

Heir Not So Apparent — Yuvraj Singh and Virendra Sehwag

The Affluent Society: How the BCCI is Choking Cricket — ICC

The Far Pavilions — Sourav Ganguly

The Merchant of Mumbai — Jagmohan Dalmiya

The Moon and SixSixes — Stuart Broad

The Way to Dusty Death: How To Spin on Indian Soil — Harbhajan Singh

Lord of the Singhs — Yuvraj Singh

The Real Lord of the Singhs — Harbhajan Singh

The Real Lord of the Singhs Slapped Me! — Sreesanth

Pride and Prejudice — Mike Denness

1983 A Cricket Odyssey — Kapil Dev

Odyssey Two: 2007 — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Odyssey Three:___—Coming soon…

© Sunil Rajguru