Ranga Plays Australia - a cricket dream - Burns, Ian
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It's only four years after the end of WW2, when there were no great cricket matches. But now things are getting back to normal: the Australians have thrashed the Poms in England, India has played its first Test series in Australia, and 'the Don' has retired. In a small Bangalore village young Ranganathan Rao is musing about life in general and cricket in particular. The weather's been hot and dry for ever - everyone's eyes are skywards, looking for the monsoon. Except for Ranga's, whose spinning fingers begin to itch. Kumar, Ranga's English/Geography/History teacher, as part of a discourse on…mehr

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It's only four years after the end of WW2, when there were no great cricket matches. But now things are getting back to normal: the Australians have thrashed the Poms in England, India has played its first Test series in Australia, and 'the Don' has retired. In a small Bangalore village young Ranganathan Rao is musing about life in general and cricket in particular. The weather's been hot and dry for ever - everyone's eyes are skywards, looking for the monsoon. Except for Ranga's, whose spinning fingers begin to itch. Kumar, Ranga's English/Geography/History teacher, as part of a discourse on the strangeness of the English language, introduces his pupils to an especially strange word - that he heard an Australian say during the war - and invites them to try to pronounce it and identify its meaning. After many unsuccessful attempts Kumar reveals both the word's pronunciation and meaning, and suggests that everyone might remember this, as one day they might go to Australia. This starts Ranga thinking.
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This story is the final of three set in India and Australia, beginning around 1950 and following through to today. Ranga Plays Australia tells the original story, in the third person. It had its origin in a suggestion by an old friend that I write a book about India, cricket, and Australia - surely an irresistible combination. But I am not Indian, though I did have boyhood Indian playmates and have visited India several times, so my concern resolved around writing authentically, where an Indian reader would not be able to take me to task. Luckily, I was introduced to Bhaktavatsala Moola, an eminent movie producer and widely-read in English literature. He was also a protege of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Bhakta rode shotgun on me, chapter by chapter. Looking back on the story, I found that I was very fond of Ranga's guru and his many wise sayings, such that I put these together in a second book, The Wisdom of Harkishen Singh, which was complemented with photos of an earlier India. Now this book, which shows the context of some of Harkishen's sayings, and spends more time with Ranga's later life, with more attention to his Australian experience. This is told in the first person.