I suppose a lot of us are still upset, so let me share something amusing.
This concerns this book, one that I had been unaware of until I came across a report by Andrew Lang in The Times.
In a piece in 1922, EV Lucas hailed the author as the Indian Nyren.
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.@sumitganguly14 got a scan of the cover for me from an acquaintance in Lucknow.
I shall share some snippets here.
I shall share more if and when I ever get the entire book.
But first, a word or two on cricket books in India.
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Calcutta Cricket Club Scores 1844-54, the first known book of scores outside the British Isles, was published in 1854.
In 1867 a Hindi coaching book was published in Agra. It was translated in Urdu in 1868.
In 1889, a Marathi coaching book was published in Baroda.
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JM Framjee Patel's famous Stray Thoughts on Indian Cricket was published in 1905.
In between all this, this book came out in 1891. As you can see, it has a long name.
I shall refer to this as Cricket Guide.
Here are the promised excerpts, mostly taken from Lang's piece.
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I am trying to add some comments. I also have some questions. See whether you can answer them.
Excerpt 1:
"Even those who are very good and noble turn so rash and inconsiderate at certain moments that their brains lose the balance and begin to take fallacious fancies."
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