I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.
My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.
It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
I have played cricket on my own terms.