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15 Dec 2022
In The Times:
"It was a quiet year for cricket books, but arguably the best is Elephant in the Stadium, by Arunabha Sengupta, which is a social history and as much about the legacy of colonialism as it is about India’s first Test series win in England in 1971."
- Alyson Rudd.
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Our publications:
Prospero Caliban Cricket by Queen's Gold Medal winning poet John Agard
Commentary -Arunabha Sengupta
Afterword - David Woodhouse
"Calypsos are more than just those two friends of mine"
#cricket #books
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHCM8M22
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Our Publications
The Ashes: This Thing Can Be Done
by Arunabha Sengupta @senantix & Maha
An enormous undertaking, a laugh a minute: David Frith
Captures all great moments: Stephen Chalke
Utterly terrific: Wisden Cricket Monthly
#ashes as #graphicnovel
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203103
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Our publications
Cricket Across Dark Waters by @senantix Arunabha Sengupta
"Capturing the true spirit of not 1 but 2 fascinating #cricket cultures" Shashi Tharoor
"An important book, no question" ACS
Nominated: Ekamra Sports Literary Festival Awards
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
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Jun 12
Tired of the booze-filled stories circulating around cricket? Why not try something more enjoyable?
"One of the ten best cricket books I have ever read" : Stephen Chalke
#cricket #mystery #sherlockholmes
Get your copy here:
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203014
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33 wickets in 2 days.
A wicket every 4 overs.
These subcontinent minefields...
Oops... This is Lord's ... Home of Cricket and all that.
Oh right, in that case this is the test of proper batting skills and IPL is ruining the traditional game.
#engvnz #lordstest
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Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
May 31
The great Dale Steyn on the great Sachin Tendulkar, as told to me (I barely had to work to get all this insight out of him). espncricinfo.com/story/the-g…
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May 28
T20 or not, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is special.
What makes it most intriguing is guys five times his age indulging in crossbatted verbal slogs in attempts to demean his feats and mark territories around supposed "real cricket".
#sooryavanshi #IPL #RajasthanRoyals #goyoungman
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May 22
1949: Indian PM Nehru applied for MCC membership. MCC refused - he was not British by birth
1955: Australian PM Menzies applied for same
Redundant to add he was welcomed
Cricket Across Dark Waters
To buy:
amazon.co.uk/0p/9492203200/
Ind: amazon.in/dp/9492203219/
#caseisstillbeingmade
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May 20
India & West Indies - cricket & much more
If I'd chosen two Saturday afternoon English village green sides instead of India and West Indies, I might have had a mention in the Bible & its ilk
But I'd rather write this anyday
To buy: amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
#postcolonial
Cricket Across Dark Waters
India vs West Indies tussles in cricket and elsewhere
by @senantix
"Capturing the true spirit of not one but two fascinating cricketing cultures" – Shashi Tharoor
Nominated for EKamra Sports Literary Festival Book Awards
amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
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May 14
The story so far: Serious #cricket #history, cricket-linked historical fiction, graphic-novel style cricket history, essays and commentary as part of collaborations. New book loading. What will it be? Watch this space.
All books until now: amazon.co.uk/stores/Arunabha… #notonlyAshes
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Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
May 10
Wonderful book. Really enjoyed the depth of research to bring in social, political connotations around each series.
May 10
This is covered in detail in Cricket Across Dark Waters. As is much of the cricket, culture and connections between India and West Indies cricket through time.
#cricket #notAshes
UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
India: amazon.in/dp/9492203219
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May 10
This is covered in detail in Cricket Across Dark Waters. As is much of the cricket, culture and connections between India and West Indies cricket through time.
#cricket #notAshes
UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/
India: amazon.in/dp/9492203219
May 10
When West indies toured India in 1983, captain Clive Lloyd used his columns syndicated in Indian newspapers to influence the results. This one trashing umpires Hanumantha Rao and KB Ramaswami that appeared in the middle of the Ahmedabad Test was the most notorious 1/2
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Rich and versatile cricket calypso has been doing rounds since 1928. Yet fat #cricket #poetry anthologies lauded in ivory towers barely include a couple of pages on them
Continuing saga of undue focus on the output from a small island.
#marginalisation
cricmash.com/cricket-fiction…
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I continue to witness the usual 'relentless focus' on cricket literature produced outside one small island. In major cricket publications - including ones masquerading as Bible etc.
So thought it was time to share this again.
#cricket #books #ignorance
cricmash.com/cricket-fiction…
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Mar 27
UK response is typical of the "Hasn't the case already been made" mentality.
#racism #slavery #caseisstillbeingmade
theguardian.com/news/2026/ma…
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Cricket Across Dark Waters - once again among Amazon best sellers
Ind-WI Cricket through colonisation, post-colonisation & globalisation. Not just about #cricket
To Buy amazon.co.uk/dp/9492203200/I…: amazon.in/dp/9492203219/ #cricketacrossdarkwaters #caseisstillbeingmade
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Arunabha Sengupta retweeted
Jan 10
Why is this still up?
@bbctms - oh & was it too hard to spell his name correctly ?..
treated horrifically by the England management .. been professional on the trip unlike some of this team mates & you have tried to humiliate him
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The best trolls are the subtlest ones.
The great cheerleader did not do himself any favours by suggesting the great revolution be amputated at the Ball. But the response was 🙌👌
#bazball #Ashes2025
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