Joy Bhattacharjya is a cricket analyst with Cricbuzz, the world’s largest online cricket platform, and also runs a professional volleyball league. He was the project director for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which in October 2017 became the most attended junior tournament in the history of FIFA. His previous engagements include being team director for the Kolkata Knight Riders which included two championship seasons, head of programming for both History Channel and National Geographic channel for South Asia, and ESPN Star Sports’ first Indian head of production. He also designed India’s first ever fantasy sports game, Super Selector, for ESPN Star Sports. Joy writes regularly on sport for the Economic Times and has also written on cricket for Times of India, India Today, BBC, The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times. Abhishek Mukherjee is the content head at Wisden India. He co-authored Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town; won the Anandji Dossa Award for the Cricket Statistician of the Year in 2019/20; used to be the assistant editor at the Wisden India Almanack and the chief editor at CricketCountry; and has written for several media houses, including The Cricketer, Moneycontrol, The Quint, and Yahoo! Cricket.
<p>Did you know that …</p><p>Chandu Sarwate, Indian Test cricketer, was also a fingerprint expert?</p><p>Sania Mirza is related to four Test captains, two of them Indian.</p><p>In addition to roads and neighbourhoods, Sachin Tendulkar also has a racehorse, a variety of mango and a species of spider named after him?</p><p>The Great Indian Cricket Circus takes a rollicking journey through more than a century of Indian cricketing history. It tells the stories of not just the matches and the players, but also of crazy fans, mind-boggling endorsements, memorable scores, eccentric commentators, iconic stadiums and much more.</p><p>Supremely entertaining, and full of bewildering events, surprising anecdotes and cool facts compiled together in wacky, interesting ways, this is the perfect book for fans of the sport, trivia lovers or anyone looking for entertainment!</p><p>FOREWORD by R. Ashwin</p><p>‘A quirky fact here, an interesting tale there, an anecdote to relate … I have always loved the world of stories and few tell them better than Joy and Abhishek. The Great Indian Cricket Circus will be so much fun.’ HARSHA BHOGLE</p>
