Synopsis Test cricket is all about a few people playing and many people watching. But what about the cricket most of us have played-in back-gardens and by-lanes, in school and in college, for a club or for one’s employer-which not many have watched and nobody, at least in India, has written about? This book looks back fondly upon such cricket played at various levels, all of which lead upwards, narrowing inexorably, to the apex. The author may not have reached there-otherwise you would have known of him as a player-but he ahs enjoyed every run he scored, every wicket taken, every catch held. That enjoyment he has sought to convey on each page here.