The world of cricket literature just got richer with Mumbai-born author Kersi Meher-Homji clocking his 15th cricket book — From Bradman to Kohli: Best of India-Australia Test cricket. His first was Cricket's Great Families, published in 1980. Although based in Sydney since 1970, Kersi is a familiar name to Indian readers through his contributions to this newspaper and Sportsweek before the magazine shut shop in 1989.

As a conscientious cricket writer and chronicler, Kersi is one of the game's true characters. Only a character like him would have a team full of cricketers as foreword-writers for his books. For the book 1,000 Tests and his latest, he got Sunil Gavaskar (and Allan Border) to do the honours. Doug Walters graced Six Appeal and Dramatic Debuts & Swan Songs, while Michael Slater, Bob Simpson, Steve Waugh, Richie Benaud, Alan Davidson, Geoff Lawson and Mike Whitney wrote forewords for other titles. Greg Chappell was asked to pen a foreword for Cricket Conflicts and Controversies – how apt!