The Great Indian Cricket Circus : Amazing Facts, Stats and Everything in Between

I loved it. It also has a lot of interesting information

The book seem to move fast initially but slowed down a little as a couple of stories repeated. Overall a joyous book

A well researched book on cricket trivia, full of interesting anecdotes and fun. Worth reading.

Informative

For anyone remotely interested in cricket.A definite buy and a must read

Stood to my expectations .. will interest kids too.

This is my first review on Amazon and it couldn't have been for a better product. This is an amazing read. One can glide through the anecdotes, stats and everything unique that makes Indian Cricket a magical circus. You can start anywhere and it will hook you in. Recommended.

Did you know that Azharuddin holds the record for scoring three consecutive centuries in the first three Tests of his career? Or that Sachin has a mango variety named after him? And how's this one - Gavaskar has 4 cricket stadiums/fields named after him worldwide. The Great Indian cricket circus brings you many such fascinating trivia and stories from the world of Indian cricket. It is not your regular cricket book. It doesn't have a plot or storyline or a journey. There are a total of 52 chapters. Cricket and fiction, unusual cricket contests, cricketers who acted in movies among others - covering a century of India cricket history. While some chapters provide new facts, others break the existing myths. You also get to know about crazy fan stories and off-the field incidents. As much as fun the book is, the authors had an incredibly tough job to put it together. The amount of research and fact-checking is astounding. And that is primarily because of the collective expertise of the writers - Joy Bhattacharya and Abhishek Mukherjee. As you sift through pages of the book, you feel you know so little about the game you have been bragging about. The book tells you, rather reminds you. That Cricket in India is deeply rooted in almost every sphere of our lives. It is so vast that you can never get enough of it. Should you get the book? The answer is in affirmative.