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Cricket and Literature
Thu, January 14 2016
Julius Caesar: Remembering the cricketer on Ides of March
Arunabha Sengupta recalls Julius Caesar, the cricketer.
Sun, September 14 2014
IPL 2014 Auction Day 2 — Highlights in limericks
The most unique highlights of the auction you have come across so far.
Sun, September 14 2014
IPL 7 Auction Day 1 — Highlights in limerick
Highlights of the action from Day One of the IPL 7 auction in limericks.
Mon, January 25 2016
Virginia Woolf and the cricket connection
Virginia Woolf, a pioneer of modernism who — among many things — played cricket.
Thu, January 07 2016
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi’s charisma made Jeffrey Archer pen a short story based on him
The Century, from Jeffrey Archer's Quiver Full of Arrows, had a character based on Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi.
Sun, September 14 2014
Deceived by Flight: Inspector Morse solves a cricket mystery
Cricket and murder are involved in the TV series Inspector Morse, episode Deceived by Flight.
Fri, September 04 2015
Playing the Game: A novel on KS Ranjitsinhji by Dutch author Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma’s ‘Playing the Game’ is a novel on the life of KS Ranjitsinhji.
Sun, December 20 2015
John Fowles — Amazing experience of the British novelist during 2000 Lord’s Test
It is not well-known that John Fowles made it to the Essex trials.
Fri, September 04 2015
Ashes 1938 Postscript: The Amazing Test Match Crime
The Ashes 1938 series was shared between Wally Hammond’s England and Don Bradman’s Australians. And the next Ashes Test would be played only in 1946-47, after the last bullet of the Second World War had been fired. However, one further Ashes encounter was played during this interlude, on the fictitious pitch of a hilarious novel written by Adrian Alington published in 1939. Arunabha Sengupta describes the book which should be in the collection of every lover of literature and cricket.
Fri, September 04 2015
Ashes 1902: Sherlock Holmes at The Oval
August 13, 1902. The day Gilbert Jessop blew the Australian attack away in an avalanche of audacious hitting, and the Yorkshire pair of George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes added the final fifteen runs to ensure an English victory by one wicket. Arunabha Sengupta looks at certain claims that Rhodes might not have been at the ground but for the presence of the great Sherlock Holmes.