Cricket Odyssey: A fascinating journey... with 75 legends of all time电子书

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FOREWORD

Part I: SPECIAL PORTRAIT

CRICKET’S FIRST GRACE

Part II: WILLOW MAGIC

1 Hobbs: The Perfectionist

2 Sutcliffe: He Lapped Up the Whole Idea of Cricket

3 Bradman: The One-Man Nuclear Taskforce

4 Hammond: Genius is What Genius Does

5 Hutton: The Eternal Stylist

6 Compton: An Entertainer beyond Compare

7 Hazare: A Knight in White Flannels

8 Mankad: The Bejewelled Oracle

9 Worrell: Cricket’s First Apostle

10 Weekes: His ‘Tons’ are Forever

11 May: A Cricketer in Shining Armour

12 Cowdrey: Of Delightful Elegance & Aplomb

13 Graeme Pollock: The Frank Woolley of his Age

14 Barry Richards: The Cricketing Cutlass

15 Viswanath: Virtuosity & Vitality

16 Gavaskar: A Hero in his Own Right

17 Vivian Richards: Cricket’s ‘King’ Alexander

18 Martin: Much to ‘Crowe’ About

19 Wessels: Of Kepler & His Sound Voice

20 Lara: Elfin Genius with the Merlin Wrists

21 Ranatunga: Napoleon of Cricket

22 Aravinda: The Silva Lining

23 Kris Srikkanth: A Joy to Watch when he Cut Loose

24 Steve Waugh: The Cricketing Thoroughbred

25 Tendulkar: The Don of our Age

26 Mark Waugh: He Waved a Magic Willow

27 Ponting: His Willow’s Voice

28 D[r]avid: The Goliath

29 Graeme: Cricket’s Goldsmith

30 Dhoni: The Vitruvian Man

Part III: ROUND & ABOUT

31 Constantine: Cricket’s First Great All-Rounder

32 Miller: Thunder from Down Under

33 Sobers: Nothing to Declare except his Genius

34 Procter: The Demolition Man

35 Imran Khan: The Sultan of Swing

36 Hadlee: Cricket’s ‘King’ Richard I

37 Botham: Both Good & Bad

38 Kapil Dev: He Epitomised the Game’s Conscious Evolution

Part IV: THE PACE CIRCLE

39 Trueman & Tyson: Tempest to a Typhoon

40 Hall & Griffith: Origin of the Pace Brigade

41 Lillee & Thomson: Not Just Pace, but Gunfire

42 Roberts & Holding: Of Lace & Grace

Part V: ESSAYS

43 The Perfect Cricketer

44 Slogasm!

45 In The Cerebral Line of Fire

46 They Have a Different Charm

Part VI: NOT QUITE SPORT

47 The Murky Side of Cricket

Part VII: DIFFERENT ‘STROKES’

48 Grimmett: Newton of Cricket

49 O’Reilly: ‘Tiger!” “Tiger!’

50 Marshall: His own ‘Martial’ Law

51 Donald: Greased Lightning

52 Akram: Lord of the Ring

53 Kumble: The Importance of Being Earnest

Part VIII: 54. SIGNPOST

From Nayudu to Muralitharan

i. Colonel C K Nayudu: Indian Cricket’s King Arthur

ii. Les Ames: ‘Mr Twinkletoes’

iii. Stan: The Stamp of McCabe

iv. Borde: Courage & Grace

v. Pataudi: When ‘Tiger’ blazed Bright

vi. Curtly: Ambrosia!

vii. Walsh: A Gentle Giant

viii. Healy: ’Keeper Extraordinaire

ix. Warne: A Flawed Genius, or Genius Flawed?

x. Cronje: The Primaeval Horseman who Debased his own Self

xi. Ganguly: Prince of Kolkata

xii. Muralitharan: Magician from the Emerald Isle

Part IX: TALE SPIN

55 The Mystical Quartet

Part X: CAPTAINCY

56 A Question of Leadership

Part XI: CRITIQUE

57 The Bodyline Dishonour

Part XII: OF MATTER & MIND

58 Cricket at the Speed of Thought

Part XIII: BY INVITATION: GUEST COLUMNS

59 Amarnath: He Defied Selectors & Destroyed Fast Bowlers. By Haresh Pandya

60 Kallis: The Irreplaceable Colossus. By G Venkatesh

Appendix I

1 Ode to Cricket

2 Of Laxman, Sehwag, Mahela & Sangakkara

3 AB: The Gladiator

Appendix II: CRICKET IN THE US

When Cricket Stoked the American Dream

POSTSCRIPT

ON THE MARQUEE

The Quintessence of Being Virat Kohli

AFTERWORD by Lalchand Rajput