A Critical Study of Anuja Chauhan's The Zoya Factor as the Indian Cricket Fiction

The Zoya Factor (2008), a best-selling novel by Anuja Chauhan, tells the love story of Zoya Singh Solanki, who is upset being single and Nikhil Khoda, the captain of the Indian Cricket team. The book has drawn attention for its prominent themes, including autobiographical novel, chick lit, young adult fiction and romantic narrative. The author presents 21^st century middle-class India with subtlety. She narrates humorously the urban middle-class English-educated but bilingual global desi type. The characters in the novel will be showing indianness. The goal of the current study in this paper is to focus on The Zoya Factor as the Indian cricket fiction. The study comprises dependent, independent, demographic, and extraneous variables like the qualities and characteristics of the writer and the selected work. The study used the textual analysis method and the biographical method. The hypothesis of the study is Anuja Chauhan’s novel The Zoya Factor (2008) is an Indian cricket fiction. To discover the discussion of cricket, the study included a review of works by Indian authors such as Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, or Upamanyu Chatterjee, Anuja Chauhan, Sujit Mukherjee, Pramesh Ratnakar, and Sushil Gupta. The focus is on celebrating the selected novel by Anuja Chauhan and its significant theme of cricket fiction.