The Amarnath trip occurs meticulously and chronological, chapter per chapter, on tour. | Photo credit: Getty images
The athletes are aware of the image, both last the days of the game and much later. Some may want to be remembered for their high ability and art, others for their nature, both pleasant and rebellious, and others for the legacy they leave to Beind and the many lives that touch and careers that inspire.
And when athletes write memories, it is a careful extension of this same image. They can be honest and direct in their evaluations of their own beings and the times in which they played and lived, but everything is subject to the person that athletes want to project.
Two recent books of Indian Cricketing Legends – Brave By Mohinder Amarnath (with rajender amellow) and Stump By Syed Kirmani (with Debashish Senguta and Dakshesh Pathhak) – he gives credit to this argument.
The stories, in fact, flow from the cover images. Aminath is his running the pull without the protection of a helmet, a synonym shot of the dough and considered among the most daring blows. The general theme in the book is of its many battles thrown against the players of deadly bowling such as Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Imran Khan, their many selection controversies, the machinations of the superiors and their multiple returns.
Kirmani’s is a quite quiet and inexpressive photograph by waiting for the red cherry to go in its gloves. It looks like an ode to the title of the book, the motto (life beyond the twenty-two yards), and the sad fact that the time of the great Wickt-Keeper in the test targets ended two torros of 200 layoffs.
Defining moments
It helps that the decisive moment in the races of Aminath and Kirmani is also the decisive moment in the history of the Cricket of India: the victory of the 1983 World Cup. Both men capture in rich detail the victory of Kapil Dev and his band of happy men on the side of the western western western and conquerors directed by Clive Lloyd.
But where the works diverge is how they lead to success. Amarnath, without a doubt, had a distorted education, since she was the son of the first test captain of the Independent India, Lala Amarnath. Brave He has vividly the growth days of Amarnath Junior and his two brothers (Surinder, an international Crick player, and Rajander, a first -class player) under his father’s giant shadow and his firm goal to make practice players of the three.
The Amarnath trip occurs meticulously and chronological, chapter per chapter, on tour. There are also lovely anecdotes of your childhood and days of school cryket that bring more than a giggle, including the one that escapes Delhi of her boarding school in Jalandhar on a train full of people, hungry and with little monkey.
Kirmanis, in contrast, zooms. Where Amarnath is needed 254 pages to reach the seminal point of his life as Cricket (the victory of 1983), Kirmani arrives in 35. This is, in fact, the greatest objection that one can have with the book, along with multiple objects, ooooooooo Brave Also, because it limits Kirmani’s count or his entire career to only 74 pages! The 90 -ode sheets that follow are biographical stories of man. Surely, did anyone who played 88 tests, 19 more than Amarnath, in a short period of only 10 years, did he have more to count?
Kirmani’s is a quite quiet and inexpressive photograph by waiting for the red cherry to go in its gloves. | Photo credit: Adrian Murrell
An obvious lady
But history informs us that, no matter how much memories are dressed and promoted as ‘Tell-All’, they are also conspicuous by their many silences. What both books are lacking is a convincing image of the Amarnath and Kirmani epochs touched their Cricket. While the volumes undoubtedly have windows to their respect, sports lives, they could also have thrown more light on the culture of sport in the past.
Following the victory of the World Cup in India in 1983, the Western Indies landed in India and were white to the hosts 3-0 in the tests (six-game series) and 5-0 on an international day such as Marshall and Holding Riot.
In his six visits to the fold in the tests, Amarnath, a hero of the tour of the western Indies in early 1983, took five ducks. Lloyd’s men were in India for almost three months. Amanath has given him the short range and has dedicated the four pages of 428. Another note of Jarren, in disagreement with the title of the book, is his reluctance to appoint players and officials whose acts and facts did not do so or.
Memories can also be for reflection and catharsis, and are used as a tool to make peace with everything that happened. But Brave and Stump Not necessarily sacrifice a sense of closing, both for Amaranath and for Kirmani, and for the reader.
Brave
Mohinder Amarnath with Rajender Amarnath
Harper Collins India
₹ 799
Stump
Syed Kirmani with Debashish Sengarta and Dakshesh Pathak
Indian Penguin
₹ 499
Saudarshan.narayanan@thehindu.co.in
Published – May 23, 2025 09:30 am istt