Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire-板球之国：帝国时代的印度奥德赛

作者: Prashant Kidambi

书名：Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire《板球之国：帝国时代的印度奥德赛》 

英文简介：'Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, ' it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an independent nation.

Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the story of the first 'All India' cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also the extraordinary tale of how the idea of India took shape on the cricket field in the high noon of empire. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of colonial and local elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an 'Indian' cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain.