Launch Cricket

Cricket minus the cliches

Until this riveting, revelatory and mostly run-free statement of the 1996 World Cup came along, observations of subcontinental cricket emanating from Britain, and meet most every another crossway of the so-called older world, tended to be clichéd, wrongheaded, derisive, patronising or meet stark racist. Small wonder, then, that it took a London-based dweller with a rucksack, a notebook a