All-India and Down Under: Peace, Partition and the Game of Cricket

by Richard Knott

All-India and Down Under is the dramatic story of two cricket tours undertaken in the aftermath of the Second World War. For seven years the war had put the careers of England's cricketers on hold. Then, in 1946, England played three Tests against 'All-India'. However, it proved to be the last such tour: by mid-1947, Indian partition had cut the country in two, a process that was violent and bloody. While the tourists were in England, struggling in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801503885
• ISBN13: 9781801503884
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"