Stumped: An Autobiography

Fourth in the world to have six victims in an innings on debut; claimed five victims in a world-cup match; was adjudged as the world's best wicket-keeper in the 1983 Prudential World Cup—this is Syed Kirmani for you. Very few people from the current generation know that Kirmani holds three world records.

A legend, Kirmani is one of the exceptional wicketkeepers to have ever graced the game of cricket. This book is not only about his life as a cricketer and as a person but also about an epic period of Indian cricket, the period in which India won the 1983 world cup, the Asia Cup and the World Championship of Cricket. A role model to budding cricketers, Kirmani through this autobiography, for the first time, opens his heart out candidly discussing the highest and lowest points of his career—from being one of the best in business to unceremoniously exiting the game.

Syed Kirmani is is an Indian cricketer and one of the best wicketkeepers to have ever graced the game of cricket. In 2016, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour bestowed by the BCCI on a former player. Kirmani was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Debashish (Deb) Sengupta works as Associate Professor (SL) and Course Leader (International Business & Management) at University of Portsmouth, London. Deb is the winner of two prestigious national-level awards for his research and writing, in India and in Bahrain. His book ‘The Life of Y’ won the first prize at DMA-NTPC business book awards for the year 2018-19. His research project on role and motivations of young women volunteers during Covid-19 won the ‘Best Research Project in the Kingdom of Bahrain’ award for the year 2022-23. His book The Life of Y has been featured in the collections of Stanford University. Deb is a well-known researcher and author in the area of young people at work and has several acclaimed books, research articles and digital artefacts to his credit, that have been widely read and used.

Dakshesh Pathak is a senior journalist, script writer and visiting faculty at National Institute of Mass Communication.