The book that keeps on giving

da stake casino： The – and then, its blue Indian cousin – as a fact of my cricket-following life.But in an age where the internet spews out all manner of data at the touch of a mouse, what is the point of the ?Well, the point is this. The point of it is its lovely size, its beautiful production, its creamy white pages. And its compendious nature is its raison d’etre.Instead of having to search and find and search again piecemeal, you have it all there in a single volume, all that you might want to learn or relive about a particular period of cricket. You can go to it on your shelf. If you want to relive, say, Virat Kohli’s heroics in the last World T20, you don’t need to search separately for each match; you have it as a chapter. Go straight to it and, reading it, in dark, black print on a thick, white page (better contrast than a Kindle Paperwhite), you can watch again the action unspool in front of your eyes. You can be there again. What tactile and visual pleasure.The point of the . Their blue spines and their white lettering tempt me. On a lazy afternoon, I reach out, pick one up, and am transported. Who needs a mouse?Wisden India Almanack
Edited by Suresh Menon
Bloomsbury India
860 pages, INR 699