Item #119971 Cricket. United India in Australia. Cricket, Homi J. H. TALEYARKHAN.
Cricket. United India in Australia
Cricket. United India in Australia
Cricket. United India in Australia
Cricket. United India in Australia

Cricket. United India in Australia

Bombay, Thacker, 1947.

Sextodecimo, (v), vii (last blank), 102 pages with 17 full-page caricatures of the members of the squad (the illustrations are by L. Bhatia).

Quarter cloth and colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the colour-pictorial dustwrapper a little torn and chipped with slight loss to the extremities. The contemporary ownership details of Patricia M. Baker (1948) are written on the front flyleaf.

Biographical sketches of the members of the first India team to tour Australia, 'but there is something more to it than just that. In the introduction the author has made out an impassioned case for the vital necessity of retaining unity in the Sports of the country ... and has expressed the hope that the action of United India in Sports will bring the present divided India in all things else together again some day' (dustwrapper blurb). Padwick 5635.

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