One-Day Cricket The Indian Challenge

The book concludes with a preview of the 2007 World Cup, and also examines Saurav Ganguly's previously controversial exclusion from the Indian side. An entire chapter is devoted to 'the turning point' for India in ODIs-a win against the then mighty West Indies in March 1983.

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One-Day Cricket The Indian Challenge

Overview

One-Day Cricket: The Indian Challenge chronicles the limited overs game from an Indian perspective. It traces its origins and covers every World Cup and Champions Trophy tournament and the 1985 Benson & Benson & Hedges 'World Championship'. India's victory in the 1983 World Cup finds pride of place. Some all-time great one-day internationals (ODIs) are highlighted as well as India's intense rivalry with Pakistan. The book concludes with a preview of the 2007 World Cup, and also examines Saurav Ganguly's previously controversial exclusion from the Indian side.

An entire chapter is devoted to 'the turning point' for India in ODIs-a win against the then mighty West Indies in March 1983.

The work also portrays the bumpy shift in the balance of power in world cricket from Anglo-Saxon control to Indian dominance.

This mostly first-hand, anecdotal sweep of over 44 years of one-day cricket, blended with sharp analysis, is also an invaluable statistical guide.

And it comes from the commentator who broadcast ball-by-ball on BBC ON India's meteoric march in the 1983 World Cup.

Features

Selling Rights
Indian Sub-Continent Only
Packing Weight
0.25 kg
Author
Ashis Ray
Publisher
Harper Collins
Language
English
Page count
386
Rs.265.50
Rs.295
8172236670

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