A Victorian Legend: Dean Jones
The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
Continue Reading...F. E. CHAUDHRY, The First Action Lensman
Not much of the early visual and print history of Pakistan cricket was ever preserved. There were scattered writers like…
Continue Reading...Johnny Briggs, Lancashire’s Popular 19th Century Hero
Was ever a cricketer more loved than Johnny Briggs? There may, I suppose, have been a few, but at his…
Continue Reading...Azhar, The revolving door at the crease
Batsman with magical wrists. Or batsman with 100 strokes. It seemed he was born to bat and Mohammad Azharuddin, at…
Continue Reading...Alan Knott: The eccentric gloveman
Huish, Hubble, Ames, Levett, Evans … great work behind the wickets has been a feature of Kent cricket for long….
Continue Reading...A batting genius called Viswanath
If ever God gave me a boon I would want to bat like GR Viswanath. Yes. There was a certain…
Continue Reading...Profile of John Arlott: Being Human
It was John Betjeman who changed the course of his life. The young man had moved on from his early…
Continue Reading...Sunil Gavaskar, A Master Batsman on Poor pitches
Batting is as Sunil Gavaskar demonstrated. Flawless, skillful, radiant, and, importantly, making an authoritative statement at the crease. With a…
Continue Reading...Vinoo Mankad: The first great all-rounder of India
1956-57. Peter May’s England was in South Africa. A series full of drama, suspense, swings of fortune, and often superb…
Continue Reading...Mudassar Nazar: Remembering His Golden Spell
England for some odd reason was regarded as the final frontier by our national sides of the sixties and seventies….
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