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When Duleepsinjhi made has Test debut for England at Lords in 1930 he scored 173 before being caught in the deep. His Uncle, Ranji, who had come along to watch , was obliged to comment that : "He always been a careless lad" !!!

He was ashamed to be an Indian and never did anything to promote the game in India and still the fools named the Premier tournament in the country after him.

I believe this book was a tribute to the British empire

And what is wrong with that @sanjay? If it wasnt for the British the game of cricket would never have been introduced in India and Americans would have taken advantage of it and we'd now be playing the ridiculous game of baseball or worse still--- american football.

Sushil - Fiction, but loosely, very loosely based on the visit by an Australian aborgine team to the UK.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_cricket_team_in_England_in_1868 "The Making of Lagaan" by Satyajit Bhatkal is a good book for matters related to the film. Also, 'Balham to Bollywood' by Chris England, who played the fast bowler in the film http://www.amazon.com/Balham-Bollywood-Chris-England/dp/0340819898

Mr Yekollu's comments [above] are not that wide of the mark, if expressed somewhat indelicately... Ranji has been the subject of a great deal of criticism from various quarters for his seeming indifference to the development of cricket in India - though such opinions take little account of his essentially 'Anglicised" background and patrician upbringing. As Mihir Bose has said: "So if Ranji did not do much for Indian cricket it is because he did not think of India as a cricketing nation. He did not think of India as a cricketing nation because he could not conceive of India as a political nation. India as a political nation was born fourteen years after Ranji died and, had he lived, as his successors' actions show, he would have undoubtedly opposed it ... Had Nawanagar managed to get together a Test team then, I am sure, Ranji would have advised Duleep to play for Nawanagar. For inasmuch as a king is ever a nationalist, Ranji was a Nawanagar nationalist. He was, perhaps, a Rajput nationalist, if that term can have any meaning ..." What is less widely known is that when Ranji first played for England in 1896 it was in the face of considerable opposition. Lord Harris, formerly the Governor of Bombay and the high priest of the MCC and its "ethical" code, bitterly objected to Ranji appearing, believing that only Englishmen should play for England. Of course, behind closed doors it is quite probable that this opposition was expressed in less diplomatic tones ! I forward below, a very fine article that details the Jam Sahib's life and times: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/418303.html

Thnk u so much Rare book for uploading dis rare gem.Please try to upload some more rare pieces on Indian Cricket,such as the Parsee account of Cricket by Shapoorji Shorbaji publishd in 1897 or D.B.Deodhar's autobiography, I'll be lookin forward anxiously

Oh, I have the tattiest copy of this book ever...bought for 40c in an opportunity shop. But I love it, especially the painfully-posed shots of Dr. Grace at the wicket. :))

Julian: Indeed. Btw, the schoolboy tournament in Mumbai is still called the Harris Shield after said gent. Re parsis - the fastest bowler from India during that generation was a a chap called Doctor Pavri. His name was Doctor!

Ooops, seems like the book that I read was of the mark. Dr was his title http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsee_cricket_team_in_England_in_1888