Overview for 22 yards
Its exactly twenty-five years after India's spectacular World Cup victory at Lords, and Indian Cricket Captain Mayank Pradhan is preparing for the match of his life : the twenty20 World Cup Final. While an entire nation waits for the finals with bated breath, Mayank learns that some of his team mates have been bought by bookies. As Mayank grapples with myriad emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India’s abysmal showing at the ODI World Cup a year earlier. He revisits a damning no-holds-barred report that he had prepared, citing the reasons for India’s defeat. Reasons that ranged from ball-tampering to drugs, from philandering to betting. Haunted by these memories, with the Twenty20 World Cup looming before him, Mayank must find out whether the match has been fixed, ease underlying tensions, keep team morale up" and play the best cricket of his life. The chronicle of one man’s journey through the fickleness that is life and cricket, 22 Yards is an unputdownable thriller.
Tuhin A. Sinha (Author)
Tuhin A Sinha has studied at Loyola School, Jamshedpur, Hindu College, Delhi and the National Institute of Advertising, New Delhi. Tuhin is a scriptwriter based in Mumbai. A tele-film, Called Phir Se, premiered on Saharaone last year and based on a Story, conceived and written by Tuhin won the RAPA award for the best tele-film, 2005. Tuhin co-scripted Pyar Ki Kashti Mein on Star One. The show, a first of its kind, was shot exclusively on a cruise. That apart, Tuhin has scripted episodic screenplays of several other dailies across channels. Apart from TV, Tuhin is presently working on two movie scripts for directors, Onir and Subhash Sehgal Respectively.
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