Cricket in cinema and books

We take stock of the way cricket has been treated in books and movies in the Indian context, particularly the purveyors of Bollywood pulp.

With Sushant Singh Rajput set to reprise Mahendra Singh Dhoni on the silver screen in his biopic that releases on September 30, it may be a good time to do a personalised highlights package of the way I have consumed cricket between covers and on celluloid.

Sushant Singh Rajput in the first poster of MS Dhoni, a biopic on cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni.