A corner of a foreign field

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C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar normally figure in this enthralling history of cricket in India, however so as well—in capturing and unforeseen ways—do Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Indian vocations of those incredible English cricketers Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine give a window into the tasks of Empire, while the exceptional existence of India’s first incredible moderate bowler, Palwankar Baloo, presents the still-incomplete battle against station separation. Later parts investigate the opposition among Hindu and Muslim cricketers in provincial India and the exceptional interests presently incited when India plays Pakistan.