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Guts and Glory : The Bombay Cricket Story

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The book traces the genealogy of Bombay's cricket: Its origins, traditions, history and the development of the game.

Bombay has seen prodigious talent emerge by the hordes and almost every era and generation has produced a champion batsman of world class.

In order to understand this phenomenon, the book takes to look at the sociological impact of the game in the city and its rapid growth.

Mumbai is a true microcosm of India and has contributed more towards Indian cricket than any other city of India, having produced such great as Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Eknath Solkar, Ajit Wadekar, Ashok Mankad and Sandip Patil, to name a few.

All of whom have shared their thoughts and memories about their early cricketing days for this book.

A must read for all cricketers, armchairs experts and cricket lovers all over the world.

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Product Details
Rupa & Co
8171676111 / 9788171676118
Paperback / softback
25/07/2002
India
180 pages, 16pp colour illustrations
127 x 197 mm
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