Description

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Cricket Odyssey is a skilfully executed, lovingly constructed, book: a literary celebration of over a century-and-a-half of cricket. It has narrative and character study blended in a dexterously refined, yet readable form. It not only manages to pervade the essential of the essentials of some of cricket's greatest players - from Dr W G Grace to Steve Waugh; from Sir Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar to Rahul Dravid; from Sir Learie Constantine and Sir Gary Sobers to Jacques Kallis; from Ray Lindwall to Wasim Akram; and, from Clarrie Grimmett to Anil Kumble and Muttiah Muralitharan - but, it also brings to life a classy and effulgent cricketing collage. More than a lively, encapsulated grandeur of individual brilliance, or cricketing chemistry, of each player epitomised in its canvas, Cricket Odyssey explores not only the many-resplendent delights of cricket, but it also delineates a deftly woven work of art - of the game's scientific foundation, art and grammar, and its players' phenomenal exploits, acts of courage, grandeur, and 'shortfall.' A journey through nostalgia, and a living monument to a living philosophy, it is, in sum, a 'must-read' and 'must-keep' book for all avid cricket fans across the globe.

About the Author

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Rajgopal Nidamboor, PhD, is a wellness physician-writer-editor, independent researcher, columnist, author and publisher. His published work includes hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and Web articles, essays, meditations, columns, and critiques on a variety of subjects, including cricket, four books on natural health, two coff ee table tomes and an encyclopaedic treatise on Indian philosophy. He calls himself an irrepressible idealist. What he likes best is spending quality time with his family, close friends, and reading, writing, listening to music, watching cricket and old movies and practising mindful meditation. He lives in Navi Mumbai, India. Website: www.rajnidamboor.com