Cricket Odyssey: A fascinating journey... with 75 legends of all time - Softcover

Nidamboor, Rajgopal, Ph.d.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539547310 ISBN 13: 9781539547310

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Cricket Odyssey is a skilfully executed, lovingly constructed, book: a literarycelebration of over a century-and-a-half of cricket. It has narrative and characterstudy blended in a dexterously refined, yet readable form. It not only managesto pervade the essential of the essentials of some of cricket s greatest players from Dr W G Grace to Steve Waugh; from Sir Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar toRahul Dravid; from Sir Learie Constantine and Sir Gary Sobers to Jacques Kallis;from Ray Lindwall to Wasim Akram; and, from Clarrie Grimmett to Anil Kumbleand Muttiah Muralitharan but, it also brings to life a classy and effulgent cricketing collage.More than a lively, encapsulated grandeur of individual brilliance, or cricketingchemistry, of each player epitomised in its canvas, Cricket Odyssey explores notonly the many-resplendent delights of cricket, but it also delineates a deftlywoven work of art of the game s scientific foundation, art and grammar, andits players phenomenal exploits, acts of courage, grandeur, and shortfall. Ajourney through nostalgia, and a living monument to a living philosophy, it is, insum, a must-read and must-keep book for all avid cricket fans across the globe.

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About the Author

Rajgopal Nidamboor, PhD, is a wellness physician-writer-editor, independent researcher, columnist, author and publisher. His published work includes hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and Web articles, essays, meditations, columns, and critiques on a variety of subjects, including cricket, four books on natural health, two coff ee table tomes and an encyclopaedic treatise on Indian philosophy. He calls himself an irrepressible idealist. What he likes best is spending quality time with his family, close friends, and reading, writing, listening to music, watching cricket and old movies and practising mindful meditation. He lives in Navi Mumbai, India. Website: www.rajnidamboor.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539547310
• ISBN 13: 9781539547310
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 238