About the book
My Summer of Cricket is memoir and sports writing woven together. It follows a landmark Border–Gavaskar Trophy summer in which I travelled across Australia to watch the cricket, using those journeys as a lens to explore what it means to be a cricket tragic, an Indian-Australian, and a dad raising two daughters who might never feel the same pull toward the game that I do.
The book moves between stadium terraces and late-night radio, between childhood memories of cricket in India and the strange, warm experience of falling in love with Australian cricket from the outside in.
At its core, it's about belonging, and about the unlikely ways sport can help you find it.
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Cricket as cultural bridge
Between India and Australia, between generations, between the game as it was and as it's becoming.
Migration & identity
What it means to rebuild a life in a new country, and to find your place through unexpected things like Test cricket.
Fatherhood
Raising daughters in Australia and wrestling with the question of how sport, love, and legacy get passed on.
The cricket tragic
The joy, obsession, humour, and community of following a sport that takes five days and still doesn't always produce a result.