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It is the story of the beginnings of cricket in India and focuses on the first all-Indian cricket tour of Britain in 1911.
“This is a capacious tale with an improbable cast of characters set against the backdrop of revolutionary protest and princely intrigue. The captain of the Indian team was nineteen-year-old Bhupinder Singh, the embattled Maharaja of Patiala. The other cricketers were selected on the basis of their religious identity. Most remarkable, for the day, was the presence in the side of two Dalits: the Palwankar brothers, Baloo and Shivram,” reads the book’s blurb.
Pic credit: Penguin Viking
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