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Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author.
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Majumdar was born on 8 March 1976 at Kolkata. He completed his Born March 8, 1976 (age 46)
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schooling from The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata. He
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completed his B.A. in History from Presidency College, University of
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Calcutta in the year 1997. In 1999, he did his M.A. in Modern History
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from the same university. He was awarded the Rhodes scholar in 1999– journals
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2000 and went to St John’s College, University of Oxford to do a DPhil Notable work Twenty Two Yards to
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on the Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000. [1][2] He Freedom
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He co-authored Playing It My Way, the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with
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Sachin.[3]
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Wikidata item In 2018 his second book, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India
and Beyond, was published by Simon & Schuster.[4]
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In 2019 he is senior research fellow in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire.
[1] Previously he has worked as distinguished visiting fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne and, since 2003,
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as visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.[2]
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Majumdar is married to Sharmistha Gupta.[2]
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ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Boria Majumdar launches his innovative sports venture RevSportz with backing from multiple corporates.[5]
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The BCCI imposed a two-year ban on Boria Majumdar after a three-member committee found him guilty of
intimidating India wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha over an interview request in 2022.[6]

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1. ^ a b "Professor Boria Majumdar | Staff Profile |University of Central Lancashire" . UCLan - University of Central Lancashire.
Retrieved 11 January 2019.
2. ^ a b c "Majumdar Boria : World Who's Who" . www.worldwhoswho.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
3. ^ Majumdar, Boria; Tendulkar, Sachin (6 November 2014). Playing It My Way: My Autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton.
ISBN 978-1473605206.
4. ^ Sen, Sudeep (25 May 2018). "Review: Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians by Boria Majumdar" . Hindustan Times. Retrieved
11 January 2019.
5. ^ "For me Sports is mainstream: Boria Majumdar" . Connected to India. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
6. ^ Acharya, Shayan. "Boria Majumdar banned for two years for intimidating Saha; won't get BCCI accreditation, access to
players" . Sportstar. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

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