Eknath Solkar: A heroic soldier who didn’t get his rightful due in India’s epic wins over WI and England...
He was known as a “poor man’s Garry Sobers” – a left-handed all-rounder who could bowl with the new ball and spin with the...
H Natarajan
(H Natarajan, formerly All India Deputy Sports Editor of the Indian Express and Senior Editor with Cricinfo/Wisden, is the Executive Editor of CricketCountry.com. A prolific writer, he has written for many of the biggest newspapers, magazines and websites all over the world. A great believer in the power of social media, he can be followed on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/H.Natarajan and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/hnatarajan)
Moments in history
Aravinda de Silva helps Sri Lanka achieve their finest day in international cricket
Sri Lanka played brilliantly as a team in the 1996 World Cup and in a fitting finale beat Australia in the title clash on March 17, 1996. H Natarajan...
Moments in history
Jayasuriya's 44-ball 82 sends shell-shocked England out of the World Cup
Sanath Jayasuriya came into the 1996 World Cup with a batting average of 19.53 from 98 ODIs. Even before he masterminded Sri Lanka to victory in...
Moments in history
When Sunil Gavaskar scaled Test cricket’s Mt Everest
March 7, 1987. After 110 years of the traditional format of the game at the highest level, Sunil Gavaskar became the first man on the planet to...
Moments in history
When Farokh Engineer tore into a famed West Indies attack and almost scored a hundred before lunch
In 2071 Tests and 135 years, the feat has been achieved just four times. It’s feat that no Indian has achieved ever. But on January 13, 1967,...
Moments in history
When Gundappa Viswanath's virtuoso solo act mastered the might of the West Indies attack at Madras
The 97 not out GR Viswanath scored against crushing odds and the fury of Andy Roberts at Madras on January 11, 1975, is considered among the rare...
Moments in history
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 – Shastri equals Sobers's world record & scores fastest-ever double hundred in First-Class...
On January 10, 1985. It was on this day Ravi Shastri equaled Garry Sobers’s First-Class record of scoring six sixes in a six-ball over and...
Moments in history
When Tiger Pataudi carved out two epics under trying conditions with one good eye and one good leg!
The second Test between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between December 30, 1967, and January 3, 1968, is still remembered...
Humour
Shocking revelation: This Indian cricketer is a reincarnation of Nostradamus!
It should be the most well kept secret in Indian cricket. In what may seem straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not, it’s learnt that...
Moments in history
When Fredericks tore apart Lillee, Thomson & others to score an epic 169 in 145 balls
H Natarajan recalls Roy Fredericks’s epic 169 off 145 balls on fiery Perth, 37 years ago, against Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Gary Gilmour...
