An Island'S Eleven Av Nicholas Brookes

<p><b>¿A tour de force of scholarship and storytelling. There have been plenty of good books on Sri Lankan cricket, but few as comprehensive or as entertaining as <i>An Island¿s Eleven</i>. Ambitious in scope and lovingly compiled, it¿s packed with anecdotes, insights and surprises. An enthralling read.¿ </b>- 2022 Booker Prize Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka<b></b></p><p><b>From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world¿s most remarkable cricketers ¿ larger-than-life characters who thumbed convention and played the game their own way. </b>This is the land of pint-sized, swashbuckling batsmen, on-the-fly innovators and contorted, cryptic spinners. More so than anywhere else in the world, Sri Lankan cricket has an identity: cricket is Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka is cricket.</p><p>We all know the story of the 1996 World Cup: how a team of unfancied amateurs rose from obscurity and changed the way the game was played. Yet the lore of Sri Lankan cri