Arunabha Sengupta (born Kolkata, India, 13 June 1973) is an Indian-born sports writer and novelist who resides in the Netherlands.
He has written five non-fiction volumes on cricket history with a socio-political perspective as well as four novels and one collection of short stories. He is a cricket historian and a Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com and Scoreline.org
- The story of India vs West Indies cricket. Along with the cricket there is a thorough exploration of the fortune of the two geographies - India and the various Caribbean nations - in the post-colonial world as their cricketing fortunes evolved. It has an introduction by Shashi Tharoor.<br> In CricketWeb this book was rated 4.5 stars and lauded for the originality with which it dwelled on the complex historical undercurrents along with the cricket. According to the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians it supplies a model for how a new historiography can be opened up. <br> The book was nominated for the 2025 Ekamra Sports Literature Festival Book Awards <br>
â The story of India's epochal Test series win in England in 1971. With the series as the main theme, the book is also a look at the complex relationship between India and Britain through the days of colonial rule to the modern day. It has an introduction by Mihir Bose<br> The book was shortlisted for the Derek Hodgson Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year Award 2022., shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards 2023 in the Heartaches' Cricket Book of the Year category and also longlisted for the MCC Cricket Society Book of the Year Award 2023<br> The book was listed as one of The Times' Best Sports Books of 2022. Alyson Rudd, chairperson of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, adjudged it to be the best cricket book of 2022. She wrote: "It was a quiet year for cricket books, but arguably the best is Elephant in the Stadium, by Arunabha Sengupta, which is a social history and as much about the legacy of colonialism as it is about IndiaâÂÂs first Test series win in England in 1971."<br>
â A history of The Ashes in a graphic novel format. It is co-written with artist and sports-illustrator Maha and has an introduction by Stephen Chalke<br>
â A history of South African cricket during the apartheid era 1948âÂÂ1970 leading up to the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign. It has an introduction by Peter Hain<br>
A Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving the legendary fictional detective in the backdrop of the epochal 1882 Test match at The Oval. This was shortlisted for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award in 2016. This was republished by Max Books in 2016<br>
â A novel set in Amsterdam, dealing with, among others, the travels and travails of a struggling writer in the murky publishing world. ForeWord Reviews rated the novel 5 stars.
â a novel combining the worlds of Software, Love and Aikido and set against the backdrop of 9/11. (The author himself is a first dan black belt in Kobayashi Aikido.)
"True picture of the Indian workplace" â Book Review India, vol 30 No 7 July 6 Both Labyrinth and Bowled Over were listed in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature