Caught Yapping by Abhishek Mukherjee

‘I do not want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there; one is trying to play cricket; and the other is not.’

‘There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?’

‘Thank you for making my tournament a success.’

‘Girls don’t play cricket.’

Bodyline, World Series Cricket and IPL—all seminal events in the game’s history and succinctly captured in the quotes above by Bill Woodfull, Kerry Packer and Lalit Modi, respectively. And a casual comment made by a policeman to Rachael Heyhoe, which spurred her on to become a cricketer and eventually organize the World Cup, two years before the men’s!

P.S. Beware of pirated copies of important books (with missing sections) circulating online.