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On a trivia trail Gulu Ezekiel
Cricket is a treasure house of quirky facts. Gulu Ezekiel wanted to put down some of these aspects in a book. The result is “The Penguin Book Of Cricket Lists”. Which Indian pace bowler fractured his finger when his hand got stuck in a po
stbox? The answercan be found in the Gulu’s book. “I have tried to bring to light aspects of the lives of some cricketers which give them a different dimension rather than just runs scored/wickets taken.”
According to Gulu, the project began during his school days about 35 years back. “For years I have been collecting trivia on players but never in a formal manner. Since I had so much information collated over the years, the actual part of putting it down in a book took just eight months. I did a lot of research from my own vast library of books and magazines.”
For this particular book Gulu wanted photographs that had not been published before. He contacted players like Ashok Mankad and Paul Dunkels for their personal photos. “It took many months to get in touch with Dunkels.”
The photo of Rahul Sanghvi was taken in a bookshop in Delhi during the release of one of Gulu’s books in 1999.
“I was lucky the photographer snapped him while he was browsing the Wisden in which it was first printed.” The record that Sanghvi boasts of is eight wickets for 15 runs (against Himachal Pradesh), the best in a domestic one-day match.
Gulu says, “I feel the way the trivia has been categorised makes it different from other books of such a genre.”
VIJAY LOKAPALLY
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