Aurum has built up an extremely successful cricket list - indeed, unquestionably the best in London, thanks to authors like Derek Birley, Gideon Haigh and David Rayvern Allen, and superb books like Mystery Spinner and A Social History of English Cricket. Now it re-issues Simon Wilde's radically revisionist and acclaimed biography of one of the most exotic and legendary cricketers ever to have played in England: the Sussex batsman and Indian prince, Ranjitsinhji. That Ranjitsinhji was a peerless stroke player both for his county and, before that, Cambridge University, is beyond dispute - indeed, he all but invented the late cut. But, as Simon Wilde reveals, what has not been so widely acknowledged is how impecunious he was - leaving a trail of debts wherever he went; how his overriding life's ambition was not cricket but to become the princely ruler of the Indian state of Nawanagar; and how thoroughly opaque his private life was. Simon Wilde's previous cricket book for Aurum on Hansie Cronie and the
- ISBN10 1845130693
- ISBN13 9781845130695
- Publish Date 27 July 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 March 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Aurum Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English