Arunabha Sengupta

Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket writer of Indian origin who resides in the Netherlands.

He has written several books on cricket with a socio-political perspective.

His latest book Elephant in the Stadium is about the epochal triumph of India in England, 1971, and through the account he explores the complex relations between India and Britain through the years of colonisation to the modern day.

According to Mihir Bose it is "A ground-breaking book" and according to Martin Chandler,"A book that should be read widely across all English-speaking parts of the world."

Apartheid: A Point to Cover is about the history of South African cricket during 1948-70 and the Stop the Seventy Tour Campaign.

According to David Frith "Anyone searching for an in-depth analysis of cricket’s anti-apartheid drama of 50 years ago (and more) is most adequately served by Arun Sengupta’s offering. Written at galloping pace. An enjoyable read."

According to Stephen Chalke"“I am immensely impressed by the research that has gone into the book, the way so many threads are gathered together in telling the story. I love the flickering style of it, moving from scene to scene with such an eye for the telling detail. The use of the present tense makes it so immediate and, running through it all, there is a terrific sense of the injustice of apartheid. Full marks to Arun Sengupta for taking a well-worn subject and creating such an original book.”

Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town is co-written with Abhishek Mukherjee and a unique look at the history of two countries through the prism of a partnership. Written in dialogue form, the authors recount and analyse every stroke of that enthralling stand, but as they do, they also bring to life the cricket, history and society of the two countries. Covering a multitude of topics as diverse as apartheid, Mandela and Gandhi, Indians in South Africa; cricket isolation and non-white cricket in South Africa, rebel tours; the television revolution and commercialisation of cricket; with other historical details and numerical analysis of the game supporting the text. It is a fascinating snapshot of cricket at that time through the prism of that incredible Tendulkar-Azharuddin partnership.

Sengupta's previous book is Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes, a cricket-based Holmes pastiche which Stephen Chalke named as one of the best 10 cricket books of all time. It made the longlist for Cricket Society's Book of the Year Award 2015.

His first two books were novels-

Labyrinth: A novel about the software industry, and Big Apple 2 Bites: A story of Love, Aikido and 9/11 - were said to be among the first ones to feature the Software professional as protagonist.

Big Apple 2 Bites has also been identified in Geetha Ganpathy-Dore's 'The Post Colonial Indian Novel in English' as the only Indian novel in English to be based on 9/11.

His second novel - The Best Seller - was given a 5 star rating by Foreword Clarion Review. Foreword Clarion Reviews wrote: 'The wonder of it all is that Sengupta keeps all the threads interwoven in a densely attractive word tapestry which is also very, very funny.'

Sengupta has worked as a cricket writer and historian and has covered cricket around the world for various concerns.