Woody Allen, born 1 December 1935, is one of the most prolific and brilliant writer-actor-directors of modern era. However, of all his films, only ‘What’s New Pussycat’ mentions the game with some amount of significance — when Peter O’Toole visits his psychiatrist Peter Sellers, and is asked by the latter: “Cricket, is there any sex in it?” On his birthday, Arunabha Sengupta tries to simulate parts of two screenplays that might have resulted had the master made films about the game.
Read MorePG Wodehouse and the Golden Rule of Cricket Fans
The quality of cricket and cricketers is the highest when the mind of the fan is at its most impressionable. In other words, cricket for the fan is whatever he sees, especially when he is young. Whatever happens before or after that gets meshed into one fuzzy blob of the primitive and the decadent. And if we look at the cricket fiction of PG Wodehouse, especially the ones which were later republished, we find that the author and his editors were extremely aware of this phenomenon.
by Arunabha Sengupta
Jeeves and the All Time XI - with apologies to PG Wodehouse
On the birth anniversary of PG Wodehouse, Arunabha Sengupta pays homage to this great writer of comic fiction by penning a brand new Jeeves story.
Read MoreThe Catapulta Code : What if Dan Brown Wrote about Cricket
Dan Brown, born June 22, 1964, has never written a book about cricket and perhaps never will. However, Arunabha Sengupta inspects his series of Robert Langdon books and tries to write his novel on cricket for him.
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