A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
Guha is a distinguished historian, biographer of Gandhi, a courageous political activist and also an absolute cricket nut Watching a serious intellectual grapple with his own relationship with sport is always revealing [A] passionate, unique book Guhas totally in love, thats the thing and its the love that shines through on every page
Ed Smith, Financial Times
Guha also fills the same role within India that Scyld Berry and Gideon Haigh do in England and Australia. In other words, he is the deepest and wisest chronicler of his cricketing nation
Daily Telegraph, Best Sport Books of the Year, 2020
Guha is an historian, environmentalist, journalist and political biographer of wide-ranging distinction An engagingly generous celebration of cricket and cricketers, Indian andfirangisalike A book that should not be ignored
David Crane, Spectator
Delightful Guha, one of Indias best-known historians and public intellectuals, is a bona fide cricket obsessive His deep knowledge of the game allows him to bring a historians perspective when writing about players The Commonwealth of Cricketis a return to his cherished first love. It should be celebrated
Soumya Bhattacharya, New Statesman
Powerful The Commonwealth of Cricket is a memoir of his lifelong obsession with the game It is, not surprisingly, a delightful read but it also carries a political message
Emma John, Guardian
Guhas book is timely It is also at odds with the way many see the game in India today In that sense it is a love-letter to a game as it was and can be again
Mike Atherton, The Times
Enchanting Deeply enriching He writes about the game as he first knew it, with the unguarded fondness of youth
Paul Edwards, The Cricketer
