Paperback. Pub Date :2003-5-1 Pages: 496 An important. pioneering work. essential for anyone interestedin cricket and India. A Corner of a Foreign Field is also abeautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport insociety at large. and how sport can influence both social andpolitical history. A book that seamlessly interweaves biographywith history. the lives of cricketers with wider processes ofsocial change.