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SSC GD 2021 PYQ — Question 30

SSC GD Constable (English) - 17th November 2021 Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q30

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 ‘The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and
Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind’ is a book written by _____.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Ramachandra G.

  • The Commonwealth of Cricket” (New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020) is a memoir of an Indian cricket fan. 
  • Ramachandra Guha describes his cricketing memories from the time that he grew up in Dehradun, studied in Delhi, and then settled down in Bengaluru.

  • When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower.

  • The Commonwealth of Cricket is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation.

  • The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country.