Indrajitsinhji: A blue-blooded cricketer who was born at the wrong time
KS Indrajitsinhji, born June 15, 1937, was a long-serving wicket-keeper batsman in domestic cricket who played four Test matches for India. ...
Sachin Tendulkar, Don Bradman's omission from Dickie Bird's Test XI shocks former cricketers
Indian Cricketing fraternity were shock at the omission of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Don Bradman in the all-time Test eleven named by former...
Sachin Tendulkar may have played his last Test in India, feel former players
There was a certain buzz as Sachin Tendulkar walked to the wicket on this hazy Sunday afternoon; nobody was saying it loudly but on the minds of...
Another bloody day in paradise, and a Test career comes to a premature end at age of 28
Nari Contractor, the former Indian captain, was born on March 7, 1934. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at a career that showed great potential, but ended...
When Chandu Borde fell hit wicket, four short of a hundred in each innings of a Test against a dreaded pace attack
On February 11, 1959 Chandu Borde was stopped just four runs short of two hundreds in the same Test match against the West Indies. Arunabha Sengupta...
When Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21.5 overs without conceding a run!
On January 12, 1964, Ken Barrington and Brian Bolus stonewalled spectators to sleep as Bapu Nadkarni bowled 131 consecutive balls without conceding...
When Chandu Borde’s superb all-round display set up India’s victory over England
Nishad Pai Vaidya revisits the India-England Test match at Kolkata in 1961-62 in which Chandu Borde scripted two important knocks to set up India’s...
MS Dhoni wrong to demand for tailor-made pitches, says Nari Contractor
Nari Contractor, who led India to its first cricket Test series win against England over half-a-century ago, disapproved skipper Mahendra Singh...
The man who stepped out of the plane and scored a Test hundred!
Classy in whatever he did on and off the field, ML Jaisimha is one of the seven players who are to be posthumously honoured by BCCI. Arunabha Sengupta...
When India beat Australia against all odds and expectations at Brabourne Stadium
On October 15, exactly 48 years ago, on India pulled off a miraculous victory against the mighty Australians at Bombay. Abhishek Mukherjee looks...
