Cricket and Literature

Sundries: Horace Walpole and his distaste for cricket
Arunabha SenguptaJune 30, 2017 12:00 PM IST
Historian, politician and writer, Horace Walpole had plenty of qualities to be admired.
Review: A Gentleman’s Game by Anindya Dutta
Abhishek MukherjeeJune 17, 2017 10:20 PM IST
The first thing that stands out in A Gentleman’s Game: Reflections on Cricket History is the assortment of quotes: every chapter begins with a renowned
Interview: Stephen Chalke — A long half-hour with the prolific and award-winning cricket writer
Arunabha SenguptaJune 6, 2017 11:02 PM IST
Summer’s Crown, Stephen Chalke’s entertaining history of the County Championship, won the Cricket Writers Club Book of the Year Award for 2015.
The Algorithm of Absolute Affectation
Arunabha SenguptaMay 29, 2017 11:31 PM IST
What would happen if a certain writer in the news suddenly decided to write about cricket?
A Match for a Million: Perhaps the most bizarre cricket story
Arunabha SenguptaMay 28, 2017 2:38 PM IST
A Match for a Million, written by Harold McFarlane, may not be the greatest short story or the best example of cricket writing. However, as
Satyajit Ray: the legend's cricket connect
Abhishek MukherjeeMay 3, 2017 7:04 AM IST
Satyajit Ray, India's most celebrated filmmaker. shared a deep connection with the gentleman's game.
J Jefferson Farjeon and his foreword for Herbert Farjeon’s Cricket Bag
Arunabha SenguptaApril 20, 2017 2:16 PM IST
J Jefferson Farjeon was one of the most prolific and underrated mystery writers of the golden age of detective fiction, who frequently dipped his pen
Neville Cardus performed the alchemy of changing reportage to literature
Arunabha SenguptaApril 2, 2017 1:53 PM IST
Before Neville Cardus, cricket was reported. With him it was felt and appreciated. Unfortunately, Yes, his cricket chronicles mingle fact and fabrication to the extent
Excerpt from Imtiaz Ahmad’s unpublished autobiography “For Cricket and Country”
Imtiaz AhmedMarch 2, 2017 4:25 PM IST
Former Pakistan captain Imtiaz Ahmed's autobiography will be published by August 2017.
Mike Marqusee: The American who figured out cricket
Abhishek MukherjeeJanuary 12, 2017 3:40 PM IST
Apart from being the finest cricket writer, Mike Marqusee was also a renowned political activist.
A Detectives XI : A team composed of fictional private eyes
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 29, 2016 8:00 AM IST
There are several other shrouds of undecipherable facts and questions that dominate the game’s history. Cricket and its story could be the fertile grounds for
The Skeleton in the Clock: A classic tale of impossible crime with a cricketing twist
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 27, 2016 4:30 PM IST
John Dickson Carr was the master of the genre of detective fiction known as the locked room mystery. Complex tales of crime and detection of
Katherine Mansfield: The writer from New Zealand who had quite a ball with cricket (that swung both ways)
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 24, 2016 12:19 AM IST
Katherine Mansfield was one of the most accomplished short-story writers to hail from New Zealand.
The Z Murders: A Golden Age detective thriller with some sterling allusions to cricket
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 5, 2016 3:15 PM IST
The Z Murders, published just before England embarked upon the infamous Bodyline odyssey, is perhaps not in the same league as a detective novel. The
Driven: The Virat Kohli Story — Review
Abhishek MukherjeeOctober 18, 2016 1:34 PM IST
CricketCountry reviews Virat Kohli's biography by Vijay Lokapally.