India, Jan. 3 -- Book: STUMPED: Life Behind and Beyond the 22 Yards

Author: SYED KIRMANI

Publisher: Penguin

Price: Rs 599

"Stumped: Life Behind and Beyond the Twenty-Two Yards" offers an insightful look into Kirmani's life, struggles and cricketing journey, writes KUMAR CHELLAPPAN

Thalassery, a small town in Kerala's Kannur district, is known as the land of three Cs: Cake, Circus and Cricket. It is said that cricket made its first appearance in Thalassery in the 1830s, making the town the cradle of Kerala cricket. The game was introduced in Thalassery by Sir Arthur Wellesley, who led a military campaign to Malabar to defeat the Islamic aggressors and Pazhasi Raja, the monarch of the kingdom who had challenged the East India Company (...