James Astill wins Cricket Society-MCC Book of the Year Award

James Astill, debut cricket writer and political editor of The Economist, has won the Cricket Society-MCC Book of the Year award for The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India. 

Astill said: "I am thrilled to win the Award and hope I have shed some light on much that is often hard for outsiders to India to fathom. The shared experience of cricket there could sometimes be the only shaft of light in the grim lives of ordinary people."