Swings and roundabouts
THE WEEK India|January 08, 2023
A gripping cricket fiction is a rarity, and how about some familiarity! In K.N. Raghavan’s Reverse Swing one cannot help but spot the uncanny similarities between the lead protagonist, Shankar—a cricketer from Kerala who finds himself caught in a match-fixing imbroglio—and a former Indian pace bowler from Kerala who had a mighty fall from grace after being accused in a match-fixing scandal in 2013.
ANIRUDHA KARINDALAM
Swings and roundabouts

REVERSE SWING

By K.N. Raghavan

Published by Current Books

Price:320; pages: 231

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