Sydney Barnes: Not many would debate that he was the greatest bowler ever in the history of cricket
Sydney Barnes, born April 19, 1873, was perhaps the best ever bowler in cricket. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the career of the man who took...
'Tip' Foster: The only man to have captained England in both cricket and football
Reg [Tip] Foster, born on April 16, 1878, still holds the record for the highest score on Test debut. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at the only...
A batsman who is rated above Don Bradman by many knowledgeable
Victor Trumper, the crown prince of all batsmen and the knight in the most shining flannels, was born on November 2, 1877. Arunabha Sengupta pays...
Nearly 40,000 runs and 4204 wickets - what an all-rounder!
Wilfred Rhodes (born October 29, 1877) was a great left-arm spinner who also made himself into a top class opening batsman. Arunabha Sengupta pays...
July 20, 1900: The day the googly claimed its first victim
112 years ago, a ball delivered with the standard action of a leg-spinner broke the other way and left the batsman stranded and stumped in the middle...
Stats across eras 2: Bradman, Sobers, Tendulkar... top batsmen by decades
In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades,...
Heart vs Mind: Trauma of a long-standing VVS Laxman admirer
VVS Laxman has scored 253 runs in his last 12 overseas innings. Arunabha Sengupta wonders whether this is the...
The infamous Sydney Hill is gone; in its place now is the Victor Trumper Stand
On the eve of the second Test match at Sydney Cricket Ground, Arunabha Sengupta revisits the infamous Sydney Hill and one...
The rare feat of a batsman scoring century before lunch on Day 1 of a Test
A century in the first session of the opening day of a Test has been achieved only on four occasions, three of them before the Second World War....
The Gilbert Jessop Mystery... Part 3
<p><em>The Gilbert Jessop Mystery</em> is a tale of detection etched on a vast canvas. A cricket historian plays the...
