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The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions,
are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past
of racism in sport - until now the truth that dare not speak its
name. Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted
the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women,
preventing them from fulfilling their potential. In Formula One,
despite Lewis Hamilton's stellar achievements, barely one per cent
of the 40,000 people employed in the sport are of ethnic minority
heritage. In football, Britain's premier sport, the number of
non-white managers in the professional game remains pitifully
small. And in cricket, Azeem Rafiq's testimony to the Commons
select committee has exposed the scandal of prejudice faced by
Asian cricketers in the game. Veteran author and journalist Mihir
Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen
and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years.
He looks in depth at the controversies that have beset sport at all
levels: from grassroots to international competitions and how the
'Black Lives Matter' movement has had a seismic impact throughout
sport, with black sports personalities leading the fight against
racism. However, this has also led to a worrying white fatigue.
Talking to people from playing field to boardroom and the media
world, he illustrates the complexities and striking contrasts in
attitudes towards race. We hear the voices of players, coaches and
administrators as Mihir Bose explores the question of how the dream
of a truly non-racial sports world can become a reality.
The Nine Waves is a tour de force. The most entertaining and
up-to-date history of Indian cricket ever published, it tells the
story of the nine great waves of the game from 1932 to the present
day. Each wave in Indian cricket was chock-full of mesmerising
stars, thrilling moments, great victories, heartbreaking losses and
significant turning points. The first wave of Indian cricket rolled
in against the backdrop of momentous changes in the country and the
world: Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign, World War Two and
Indian independence. Through each of the waves, India strengthened
its position in the cricketing firmament. By the end of the 20th
century, it was the most powerful nation in world cricket.
Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author Mihir Bose brings
together his first-hand experience of some of the most seminal
moments in Indian cricket, his encyclopaedic knowledge of the game
and his unrivalled ability as a chronicler of the sport to create a
magisterial history of Indian cricket.
In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With
the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and
multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India
has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the
first time a developing country has become a major player in the
international sports arena.
This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Boses classic
history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon.
Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal
experience, Bose traces the development of the Indian game from its
beginnings as a colonial pastime to its coming of age as a national
passion and now a global commercial powerhouse. This illuminating
study reveals Indian crickets central place in modern India's
identity, culture and society.
Insightful, honest and challenging, Bose tackles the myths and
controversies of Indian cricket. He considers the game in terms of
race, caste, politics, national consciousness and ambition, money,
celebrity and the media, evoking all the unpredictability,
frustration and glory that is the magic of Indian cricket.
In the last twenty years, Indian cricket has been transformed. With
the arrival of global television networks, mass-media coverage and
multinational sponsors, cricket has become big business and India
has become the economic driving force in the world game. For the
first time a developing country has become a major player in the
international sports arena.
This fully updated and revised edition of Mihir Boses classic
history is a unique account of the Indian cricket phenomenon.
Drawing on a combination of extensive research and personal
experience, Bose traces the development of the Indian game from its
beginnings as a colonial pastime to its coming of age as a national
passion and now a global commercial powerhouse. This illuminating
study reveals Indian crickets central place in modern India's
identity, culture and society.
Insightful, honest and challenging, Bose tackles the myths and
controversies of Indian cricket. He considers the game in terms of
race, caste, politics, national consciousness and ambition, money,
celebrity and the media, evoking all the unpredictability,
frustration and glory that is the magic of Indian cricket.
The Premier League is immensely successful, a true worldwide
success of the kind not enjoyed by any other English product. Such
is the dominance of the Premier League that people have changed
their sleeping habits on match days around the world. This
fascinating book charts the rise of the Premier League. Few of its
founders saw it as a worldwide phenomenon, but the power of TV
media, the wider changes in Europe and influx of rich men s money
(led by Roman Abramovich) propelled the Premier League into a class
of its own. Yet, the Premier League s rise was a spectacular
cocktail of events, few of which were properly anticipated let
alone planned for. Without any safeguards as to how clubs are
governed, or how English football is protected from predators, we
are now witnessing a financial crisis of such dimensions that the
game may be forced to change in order to survive. Mihir Bose, the
UK s leading sports/business journalist, takes us on a mesmerizing
journey involving high stakes, multi-billion pound deals, powerful
and rich people, and the future of the beautiful game.
Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second
World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and
the British. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross, Germany s
highest military decoration, and paid him 2.5 million in today s
money. In reality Silver deceived the Nazis on behalf of the
Soviets and the British. In 1942 the Russians decided to share
Silver with the British, the only time during the war that the
Soviets agreed to such an arrangement. This brought him under the
control of Peter Fleming who acted as his spy master. Germans also
gave Silver a transmitter which broadcast misleading military
information directly to Abwehr headquarters in Berlin. Silver was
one of many codenames for a man whose real name was Bhagat Ram
Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the North West Frontier province of
then British India. Between 1941 and 1945 Silver made twelve trips
from Peshawar to Kabul to supply false information to the Germans,
always making the near-200-mile journey on foot over mountain
passes and hostile tribal territory.Once when an Afghan nearly
rumbled him, he invited him to a curry meal in which he had mixed
deadly tiger s whiskers killing the Afghan. "
The British like to see themselves as tolerant and believers in
fair play. Yet, often in thought and deed, they behave in a fashion
that could not remotely be considered moral. This is the great
British moral dilemma, a country forever wrestling with whether to
be Lions who roar and conquer everyone or gentle lambs that gambol
about happily without a care in the world. In the days of the
empire these two faces of Britain meant the metropolitan face of
Magna Carta, of Habeas Corpus, the Mother of Parliaments, and the
country that harboured people who were forced to flee their
homelands. To the wider world, however, there was an imperial face
where colonial subjects were made very aware that the British knew
how to ensure obedience from subject peoples, even if that required
the use of brutal force. Brexit has once again highlighted this
duality. Those who voted to leave want Britain to roar like a Lion,
as it did for more than two hundred years. In contrast the
Remainers saw Brexit as a self-inflicted wound feel, believing the
only option is to live happily with the Europeans and work out a
common future. Bose's perspective on this British duality is that
of an immigrant who is neither a refugee nor an economic migrant.
While he has experienced racism in his near half century in
Britain, he has also been provided wonderful opportunities to
become a writer that he would never have had in his native land.
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