A GOOGLY IN LONDON: A Sporting Farce of Cricket, Cash, and Capital Chaos" - Softcover

WRITER DON, PRASHANT CHANDOLA ALIAS

9798171889982: A GOOGLY IN LONDON: A Sporting Farce of Cricket, Cash, and Capital Chaos"

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Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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He came to London looking for opportunity.
He found betrayal, bankruptcy, British bureaucracy—and eventually, a snack business.
Because when life bowls you a googly, you either get out… or learn to play it.
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A Googly in London
A Sporting Farce of Cricket, Cash, and Capital Chaos

He came to London looking for opportunity. He found betrayal, bankruptcy, British bureaucracy—and eventually, a snack business.

What happens when a cricket-obsessed dreamer enters the cutthroat world of money believing that a handshake means something?

He learns the hard way.

A Googly in London is a hilarious, warm-hearted and wildly unpredictable comic memoir about cricket, cash, culture shock, bad decisions, second chances, and the ridiculous business of trying to make a life in a foreign country.

Fresh from Mumbai and armed with ambition, optimism and a lifelong love of cricket, our narrator arrives in London expecting opportunity.

Instead, he encounters Harold.

Charming. Helpful. Cricket-loving.

Trustworthy?

Well… that's where things get interesting.

A promising business opportunity becomes a financial nightmare. Money disappears. Trust evaporates. And the narrator is left wondering whether he has travelled halfway across the world only to be bowled out before his innings has even begun.

But in cricket, as in life, the match isn't over after one bad ball.

What follows is a chaotic journey through London's immigrant life and the strange world of small business—complete with disastrous cooking, council tax confusion, competitive eating, questionable deals, failed shipments, eccentric customers, family wisdom, cultural collisions, and the unforgettable Mrs. Patel, whose practical lessons in business and trust begin to change everything.

Slowly, painfully, hilariously, the narrator discovers that success isn't about spotting the biggest opportunity.

It's about watching the ball.

It's about knowing who is bowling.

It's about reading the fine print.

And sometimes, it's about getting back to the crease after everyone assumes you're finished.

From the cricket grounds of childhood to the streets of London, from financial disaster to the beginnings of a snack empire, A Googly in London turns the language of cricket into a surprisingly perfect map for surviving money, business, friendship, failure and life.

Funny. Chaotic. Sharp. Occasionally disastrous. And ultimately uplifting.

If you've ever trusted the wrong person, made a spectacularly bad decision, started again from scratch, or wondered what on earth you were doing with your life, you may recognise yourself somewhere in these pages.

Because life doesn't always deliver a straight ball.

Sometimes it swings.

Sometimes it bounces.

Sometimes it hits you where it hurts.

And sometimes—

it bowls you a googly.

Welcome to London.

The innings has begun.

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