{"product_id":"9781446484944","title":"You Must Like Cricket?: Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' For some of us answering that can keep you awake at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoumya Bhattacharya knows this: he has a steady job, a loving wife, a daughter he dotes on. But most of all he has cricket. Or perhaps more accurately: cricket has him. Ever since he can remember, he's loved the game. From his first knockabouts on the living-room carpet - with his mother's paper bats and balls - he progressed to \u003ci\u003eTest Match Special\u003c\/i\u003e on short-wave, then to the whole panoply of obsession: one-dayers, Test matches, TV highlights, re-runs of TV highlights, always following one team - India. When you come from a country where the game is more than a religion, you must like cricket, right?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sparkling memoir of a lifetime spent in the company of eleven men, a green field and a billion other worshippers, Soumya Bhattacharya gives us a guided tour of the soul of a cricket obsessive. Part reportage, part travelogue, part cultural politics, \u003ci\u003eYou Must Like Cricket?\u003c\/i\u003e takes us from his home in Kolkata to Lord's and back again as Bhattacharya explores the joys and the lows (mostly the lows) of a thirty-year love affair, how one game has become so closely tied to a nation's identity, and the troubling hold cricket has over him. But if your home ground was called Eden Gardens, where else would you rather be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154713723120,"sku":"9781446484944","price":16.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446484944_p0.jpg?v=1763824598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446484944","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}