A Flash Outside the Off Stump

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A Flash Outside The Off Stump

Andy Carter

18 episodes

9 months ago

A podcast on cricket history looking at early Black and Asian cricketers in England. A book of the series is now available entitled Beyond The Pale: Black and Asian Cricketers in Britain 1868-1945. It is available from Amazon and numerous other retailers worldwide.

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A Flash Outside the Off Stump

A Flash Outside The Off Stump

16 minutes 27 seconds

1 year ago

A Flash Outside the Off Stump

Ranjitsinhji was born in Sarodar, Gujarat in 1872 and might well have been destined for a life of obscurity as a local landowner had he not been adopted as the heir to the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar at the age of six. As the future ruler of an Indian princely state he was sent away for an English style public school education to Rajkumar College, a boarding school for the sons of maharajahs where he was introduced to “manly English sports” including cricket.

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