Opening India's Innings
Prashant Kidambi's book is, in a sense, about everything but cricket, even as it takes us through the primordial manthan that begins to form the cosmos of the game as we know it today.
The famous Scottish football manager Bill Shankly once recounted this conversation: "Someone said to me 'To you, football is a matter of life and death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that.'" Many subcontinental cricket fans would happily replace 'football' in the quote with 'cricket'. At the same time,
