The Miracle Makers: Indian Cricket's Greatest Epic | Story Behind Indian Cricket's Historic Breach of the Gabba Fortress

A wonderful book about a great series between traditional rivals and showcasing the efforts behind the scenes for both the teams to bring it alive

Loved the writing! Went back to golden memory lane of 2000/1 India Aus series! 2020-21 again redfining moment for Indian cricket. Overall book is good, it could have been better by adding pictures and match stats . I hope authors will consider the suggestions in new edition.

It's a brilliant book. It keeps you hooked no matter how many times you pick up the book.Kudos to the authors

Loved reading this behind the scenes account of Indian Cricket Team's one of the greatest series wins ever. A must read for Team India fans.

This is a decent work. What makes it stand out is that it is not centred around a few celebrated players or individuals. So, for example, the reader gets chapters on the coaches (not much about the batting coach though)--Ravi Shastri and Bharat Arun. The other good thing about "The Miracle Makers" is that it is not match-centric either. So, the writing does not provide match-by-match or ball-by-ball descriptions and exclamations.Yet, there are multiple problems. One, that the personal travails of the authors--of travelling through Australia during the pandemic to follow cricket matches--get increasingly side-lined as the narrative moves ahead. Second, there are no statistics or pictures featured in the work. As a result, the writing has the tendency to come across as being too personal or idiosyncratic, to the extent that the authors have almost unbridled access to the Indian team's players and support staff. Finally, the book would have been much better balanced and insightful had the authors managed to speak with some of the Australian players and staff. Hence, instead of the reader getting the sense that the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2020-21 was indeed epic, the sense that she gets is that she must believe the Trophy was epic because the authors of the book say so.Overall, if the reader of "The Miracle Makers" is familiar with Sundaresan's earlier work with Suresh Raina on the latter's memoir, she would find this book to be (surprisingly) insipid, disappointing, and underwhelming.

THE MIRACLE MAKERS Authored by Bharat Sundaresan with Gaurav Joshi. This book is about Indian cricket teams tour of Australia in 2021. The tour was after 8 months of lockdown because of Covid and to beat Australia in Australia 2 times in 3 years was a remarkable feat by an Indian team. This book narrates the ups and downs and challenges faced because of Covid and injuries to players. A must read book for Cricket lovers. Source Amazon.

A great account of that epic series. Well- written and filled with lovely anecdotes and insights. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Great read. Made me relive all the special memories of that epic series - Toota hai Gabba ka Ghamand !!

Bharat writes an interesting account of the Indian Teams Aussie Tour. The massive defeat in Adelaide to the improbable, but impressive victory at the Gabba, provide the key anchor points, but the book covers so much more that only the knowledge and contacts (not to mention passion) of Bharat and Gaurav could deliver.

Just a lovely recap of the emotions behind probably the greatest comeback stories in test cricket history. A must read.