View: Why I am an Indian - not India - cricket fan

In his book, The Commonwealth of Cricket, Ramachandra Guha writes about how it is more important to him, when India are playing, to watch a good game rather than for India to win at any cost. ‘When I was young, I desperately wanted India to win; every match, against every opponent… Now, I still wanted India to win, but what I wanted even more was a good match. I became disgusted by the cricketing jingoism around me…’ My transformation along