Ranji: The Strange Genius of Ranjitsinhji

Aurum has built up an extremely successful cricket list - indeed,nquestionably the best in London, thanks to authors like Derek Birley,ideon Haigh and David Rayvern Allen, and superb books like Mystery Spinnernd A Social History of English Cricket. Now it re-issues Simon Wilde'sadically revisionist and acclaimed biography of one of the most exotic andegendary cricketers ever to have played in England: the Sussex batsman andndian prince, Ranjitsinhji. That Ranjitsinhji was a peerless stroke playeroth for his county and, before that, Cambridge University, is beyond dispute indeed, he all but invented the late cut. But, as Simon Wilde reveals, whatas not been so widely acknowledged is how impecunious he was - leaving arail of debts wherever he went; how his overriding life's ambition was notricket but to become the princely ruler of the Indian state of Nawanagar;nd how thoroughly opaque his private life was. Simon Wilde's previousricket book for Aurum on Hansie Cronie and theSimon Wilde is the author of 'Ranji: The Strange Genius of Ranjitsinhji', published 2005 under ISBN 9781845130695 and ISBN 1845130693.