Welcome to the book launch of ‘Of Spins, Sixes and Surprises’, which will aim to highlight memorable moments in Indian cricket featured in the book, in an interactive format. The book will be introduced to the audience by way of a quiz based on exciting events in Indian cricket history. This will be in a written format comprising of 5 rounds with 5 questions in each round. Each team will have 2 members, and the top 2 teams will win exciting prizes!

Warm up for the World Cup Final with an exciting cricket quiz by the authors of ‘Of Spins, Sixes and Surprises’!

About the Book:

If you visit the cricket / sports section in bookshops, you will find either glossy coffee-table books or ghost-written biographies of cricketers – which have limited long-term appeal to readers, or scholarly tomes on the history of the game, which are more anthropological and societal studies and keep away everyone but the dedicated scholars of cricket. There is however a big population of cricket fans who love and follow the game with passion, who read Cricinfo and other cricketing sites regularly, but who are not interested in reading a book on history but would rather read reports of matches; and an illustrated photo-biography of Mahendra Singh Dhoni would not satiate their interest in the game either.

This book is for those lovers of the game. This book tracks the history of the game not in terms of an anthropological study, but instead through matches. For them, we present the 50 matches which, in the opinion of the writers, shaped cricket in India. Each of the 50 matches is dealt with in detail – who were the important characters, what happened in the match, what were the critical moments and turning points, and most importantly, what was the impact of the match to the overall cricketing firmament in India.