I think it was Andy Bull in the Guardian’s Spin email who recently recommended Mike Marqusee’s War Minus the Shooting as good complimentary reading while this latest World Cup is going on.
War Minus the Shooting tells the story of the 1996 competition, held in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka and won, of course, by Sri Lanka. For another view of the same tournament, there is also the excellent Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey by Robert Winder.
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