Not Just Cricket
A Reporter's Journey through Modern India

Not just cricket, but more. Politics, business, journalism. Ambition, greed. Sportsmanship, fair play. Pradeep Magazine begins his book about modern Indian cricket with an insight into his growing years, from when he, born into a Kashmiri Pandit family, lived in Srinagar surrounded by a loving family......more

The author has had a ringside view of the happenings in Indian cricket for more than four decades and in a country which breathes cricket, the memoir of such a journalist wil naturally make for engaging reading. Invoking the CLR James maxim "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?", the......more

Not Just Cricket is a lovely trip down the memory lane for fans of Indian cricket. Pradeep Magazine's memoirs feel like sitting down with an old uncle in the late afternoon, with the evening stretching in front of you, no shortage of good food and drink, and no rush to head anywhere the next morning......more

This was a fun book around Indian cricket history with names being named and scandals (of times past) unpeeled. The Kashmir angle was interesting in that it shed light on the traumatic recent past of the State but seemed supplementary to a book about cricketing politics.......more

Pradeep Magazine has done a wonderful job in depicting the cricket events of four decades across the globe along with the political developments in India. He’s thrown light on the fixing saga, the IPL, and a few other controversies that shook Indian cricket, at the turn of the century. If you’re a c......more