When it comes to literature on cricket, three works immediately spring to mind. In the magnificent Pundits from Pakistan, Rahul Bhattacharya combined cricket reportage with memoir and travelogue in a scintillating account of India’s historic 2004 tour of Pakistan which won “not just games but even hearts” (to quote former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee). Simon Lister’s Fire in Babylon told the story of how a bunch of talented cricketers from the West Indies became the world’s most-feared cricketing side and forged a single identity out of a group of island nations.