Indian Summers - John Wright

Indian Summers is more than one man's story. It is an account of the dramas and disappointments of a coach and his team who worked and played in an environment where keeping your head is as vital as keeping your wicket. Where all that lies between rousing acclaim and utter disgrace is a single cricket match. It also lifts the covers on modern Indian cricket, as phenomenon and passion, and explains why coaching India is like no other job in the game.FeaturesIn October 2000, former New Zealand captain John Wright was named coach of the Indian cricket team. It was an appointment that was not expected to last and an experiment that was not expected to work. Indian cricket had never had a foreign coach, and Wright had not been to India in over a decade.Bucking all doomsday prophecies, an unusual partnership between a high-profile team and a low-profile coach survived five years. In this time, Indian cricket was rebuilt after the match-fixing scandal and enjoyed its best results in decades,