311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnold. And me, William DeRimple. Now this is our second in our little mini-series about Empire and cricket, and we've been looking at the way in which imperial politics sort of weaves in and out of the world of international test cricket. We had an absolute Corka last time talking about the ashes, which is in full swing at the moment.

But now we're going to be talking about pre-partition India. So when we talk about India, we know, we know, we know that Pakistan and Bangladesh are test playing nations. But when when we talk about this, we're going to talk in the context of India for this. And once again, we are in the company of the brilliant Tim Wigmore, who has a, well, show us the book. It's a lovely book.

History of Test cricket. It's called Test cricket, so it does what it says on the tin. And it's, I mean, it's a brilliant, brilliant uh read, wonderful read, and it's also augmented so well with your entire encyclopedia of of knowledge, Tim. So thanks very much for for being with us. What we're here to talk about is is uh India and cricket.

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