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Kennington Oval, a brief history: Part 6

For the first time in England, a 5-Test series was played, each of three days’ duration. Two more English venues, Trent Bridge and Headingley, were added to the English list of Test grounds.

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Kennington Oval, a brief history: Part 5

The 1886 Oval Test saw the first whitewash in the history of cricket being completed.

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The Historic Kennington Oval – Part 4

By 1884 The Oval was no longer the only Test ground in England: Old Trafford and Lord’s had joined the fray.

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Movember: Celebrating cricket’s greatest moustaches – Part 2

The rest of India refused to be left behind. Madan Lal started the trend. Kapil Dev improved on it to grow an all-time great among Indians. The fashion dominated the 1980s. Barring a few exceptions, the Indians generally accepted the moustache.

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Movember: Celebrating cricket’s greatest moustaches – Part 1

It is November, that time of the year when the moustaches are spotted across the world for a noble cause. This is cricket’s own contribution towards Movember.

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Kennington Oval, a brief history: Part 3

The bare bones of the 1882 Oval Test may be expressed as Test # 9, England v Australia. Australia had won by 7 runs. But, and there is a big ‘but’ in all this, making the bland statement above is akin to stating that Pandit Ravi Shankar was an itinerant strummer or that Michelangelo was a hewer of stone.

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Kennington Oval, a brief history: Part 2

In 1880, The Oval hosted the first Test on English soil.

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Kennington Oval, a brief history: Part 1

The first cricket match played at the Kennington Oval for which a scorecard survives to this day appears to have been played on July 17, 1845

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England’s history of collapsing: Part 1

England ended their tour of India by imploding spectacularly, losing eight wickets for eight runs as Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah left them looking clueless.

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Early Days of Australian Cricket: Part VII

The old firm of Alfred Shaw, James Lillywhite, and Arthur Shrewsbury decided to launch their fourth enterprise in Australia despite the knowledge that another English team, under the leadership of Lord Hawke, was about to visit Australia almost simultaneously.

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