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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
The Nine Waves is a tour de force. The most entertaining and up-to-date history of Indian cricket ever published, it tells the story of the nine great waves of the game from 1932 to the present day. Each wave in Indian cricket was chock-full of mesmerising stars, thrilling moments, great victories, heartbreaking losses and significant turning points. The first wave of Indian cricket rolled in against the backdrop of momentous changes in the country and. |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. The Miracle of Johannesburg -- 2. White South Africa's Unexpected Gift -- 3. An Alien People Take to Cricket -- 4. The First Indian Fab Four -- 5. English Cast-Offs, the Undiscovered Indian Diaspora -- 6. India's Fergie -- 7. A Prince to the Rescue -- 8. The Unknown Indian Dazzles -- 9. Still Not at the Top Table -- 10. The Many Cricketing Sides of Gavaskar -- 11. Kapil, the Cricket Revolutionary -- 12. Gavaskar versus Kapil Dev -- 13. God Is Reborn as a Cricketer -- 14. Eyeballs Not Cricket Balls |
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15. New Indian Faces at Lord's -- 16. Great Players may not be Great Captains -- 17. Tendulkar versus Warne -- 18. Pakistan Find Apple Crumble Indigestible -- 19. Still Searching for the 1983 Magic -- 20. A Remarkable India-New Zealand Partnership -- 21. Tendulkar is India -- 22. Changing the Indian Mindset -- 23. The Two Indias -- 24. Making History in Pakistan -- 25. India Win Cricket's Six-Day War -- 26. Cricket Tamasha and India's Donald Trump -- 27. Mahi Takes Charge -- 28. The Man Who Made Pagla Ghar Into Cricket Ghar -- 29. The Rock Stars of Cricket -- 30. Ending the 28-Year Hurt |
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31. Dhoni: Cricket's Teflon Man -- 32. King Kohli -- 33. Officers and Workers -- 34. Get Dirty, Look Ugly -- 35. Pussy Cats and Tigers -- 36. Forty-Five Minutes of Bad Cricket -- 37. The Indian Ingenu and Australia -- 38. Kohli's Midas Test -- 39. The King Abdicates -- Statistics -- Bibliography -- Other Books by Mihir Bose -- Photos |
| Subject |
Cricket -- India -- History.
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Cricket. (OCoLC)fst00882917
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bose, Mihir The Nine Waves London : Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Limited,c2022 |
| ISBN |
1801502676 (electronic book) |
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9781801502672 (electronic book) |
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