About the Author

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, is a research fellow at Latrobe University, Melbourne. A visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2004), he completed his doctorate on the Social History of Indian Cricket at St. John's College, Oxford University. Academic Editor of the Routledge Journals Sport in Society and Soccer and Society, he is General Editor of the series, Sport in the Global Society (Routledge). Some of his publications include: Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation (with Kausik Bandyopadhyay), 2006; Twenty Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket, 2004; and Indian Cricket through the Ages: A Reader, 2005. A well-known media figure, Majumdar has featured in programmes for NDTV, CNN-IBN, Ten Sports, ESPN-Star Sports and BBC Radio.