Mayukh Ghosh

'An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.' Well, I don't think I'll be able to ignore this Benjamin Disraeli quote too many times. So, please take note and do the needful.

#RareCricketPhotos November 1977. Bobby Simpson laying a wreath on Victor Trumper's grave. The wreath was given by the New South Wales Cricket Association to mark the centenary of Trumper's birth.

#RareCricketPhotos January 1961. Pakistan v Madhya Pradesh at Indore. C.K. Nayudu and Qamaruddin Butt. Butt wrote a book on this series: 'Playing for a Draw'.

#RareCricketPhotos India tour of Ceylon, 1956. Polly Umrigar leading the team on to the field.

Max Bonnell is always a delight to talk to and this was no exception. I first read about Jack Walsh in one of Stephen Chalke's books. This is a proper book on the man and his love for the game (and the art of spin bowling). @ACScricket cricmash.com/book-reviews/s…

New on Stories Behind Books: Jack Walsh by Max Bonnell series by @stock_delivery #cricket #books cricmash.com/book-reviews/s…

#RareCricketPhotos President F.W. de Klerk is introduced to the first Indian team to tour South Africa in 1992/93.

#RareCricketPhotos April 1993. Kensington Oval. A boisterous crowd under the Three Ws stand. The three Ws from Pakistan, as per them, were Wasim, Waqar and Weed! This was referring to the infamous incident prior to the first Test. It involved four Pakistanis (including the Ws).

#RareCricketPhotos The summer of 1967/68. Neil Harvey joins Jack Ryder and Don Bradman as one of the three Test selectors.

#RareCricketPhotos "You'll get the Kennedy treatment...." Threats were received by umpire Col Egar after he no-balled Ian Meckiff and ended his career. Later they became very good friends, regularly meeting during the Adelaide Tests. Lou Rowan joined them on this occasion.

When Jim Laker took 19 wickets at Old Trafford, Alan Oakman took five catches at short-leg. The highlight of his Test career. In 2005 he told Stephen Chalke, ” Here I am 49 years later, still living on it!” Born on this day in 1930.

#RareCricketPhotos Apr 14, 1990. Viv Richards meets James Lawton of Daily Express before start of 2nd day's play in the 5th Test v England at Antigua. Lawton had written critically of Viv. The headline was 'Viv Blows His Top' "I tell you man, I'm bubbling", said an angry Viv....

#RareCricketPhotos 1967. Hanif Mohammad and Wasim Bari sign the visitors' book in the BBC office, London.

#RareCricketPhotos Prisoners from the armed forces of both England and Ausralia played improvised cricket while incarcerated by the Japanese in Changi during World War II. An Australian soldier, John Remington, sketched the play. In 1994, he presented it to Melbourne CC museum.

@AmmarAliQureshi This is one where he is mentioned but this is not on him, strictly speaking: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… I am actually going to write one soon (one Majid and Zaheer partnership), will keep you posted.

@stock_delivery hello mr Gosh. I am working on a bio of Zaheer Abbas. Wanted to know if you have written any profile of him. I am keen on including opinion of Indian cricket writers. Any other Indian writer recommendation on Zed. Many thanks

And now reviving #RareCricketPhotos.... March 27, 1948. Bradman, Johnson, Harvey, McCool, Saggers, Loxton etc in the pavilion of the Colombo CC ground. It was a one day match against Ceylon and Australia scored 184. It ended in a draw. From Channa Gunasekera's scrapbook.

Reviving the 'Stories Behind Books' @cricmash with Max Bonnell's book on Jack Walsh, published by @ACScricket His seventh book in the last 24 months and,quite remarkably,he has been able to maintain the high standards. The trigger for this book goes back to a time when he was 16!

How do you play cricket at a time when (in Australia, at least, where the impact of the Depression was felt so strongly) whole societies are disintegrating? The question that, among other things, led Max Bonnell to write this. Next in the 'Stories behind Books' @cricmash .

New on Stories Behind Books. @stock_delivery covers An Unusual Celebrity: The Many Cricketing Lives of Bill Bowes by @lonsdale_jeremy @PitchPublishing #cricket #books cricmash.com/book-reviews/s…

It all began when @lonsdale_jeremy thought about how he could write about Yorkshire cricket in the 1930s without duplicating a lot of existing work. This is his fifth book on Yorkshire cricket. Next in the 'Stories behind Books' @cricmash. @PitchPublishing

The fact that was naturally overshadowed by the total failure in Tests(0-3) and ODIs(0-2) was that this was the first Indian team to go through an English tour without losing to a county. And, on July 13th, they played their first ODI. It all began on this day, 50 years ago.