Unpopular opinion alert. Watching a final World Cup match is thrilling for sure, but talking cricket beats me. But as fate would have it, this writer is married to someone who has played professional cricket. So when he got to know of the just released book, Coaching Beyond: My Days With The Indian Cricket Team (Rupa Publications, Rs 265), by former fielding coach of the team R Sridhar, he went back to his time as a budding cricketer at Kanpur’s Green Park Hostel and that one moment when he just picked up the phone and sought Sridhar’s advice. 

Rishabh Pant