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Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 5: Johnny Wardle
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 31, 2018 6:00 PM IST
Johnny Wardle, a left-arm finger-spinner, took to bowling Chinaman and found reasonable success on Australian pitches.
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 4: Garry Sobers
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 31, 2018 6:00 AM IST
Garry Sobers bowled outswing, inswing, and finger-spin. He also bowled wrist-spin...
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 2: Chuck Fleetwood-Smith
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 30, 2018 9:28 AM IST
“If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion,” wrote Don
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 27, 2018 4:45 PM IST
Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.
Indian Test triumphs in England, Part 4: Tons and tweaks at Headingley, 2002
Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 27, 2018 12:19 PM IST
Sourav Ganguly picked two spinners and opted to bat despite the gloom. The rest is history.
Indian Test triumphs in England, Part 3: The Dilip Vengsarkar show at Headingley, 1986
Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 26, 2018 1:46 PM IST
England scored 230 runs across innings in the Test, less than India's scores of 272 and 237. It was only the fifth time in history
Rev. AP Wickham: Kept wickets for both sides in a First-Class match
Pradip DholeJuly 25, 2018 2:38 PM IST
Rev. AP Wickham also held the County Championship record for the biggest innings to have kept wickets too without conceding a bye.
Indian Test triumphs in England, Part 2: Lord’s conquered at last, 1986
Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 25, 2018 12:59 PM IST
India had drawn two and lost eight of their first 10 Tests at Lord's. This was their 11th attempt.
Indian Test triumphs in England, Part 1: Ajit Wadekar's men create history at The Oval, 1971
Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 24, 2018 12:00 PM IST
India had lost 15 out of their 19 Tests on English soil before the tour, drawing only rest. In fact had lost 11 of their
Louis Hall: The man who carried bat for Yorkshire 14 times
Pradip DholeJuly 23, 2018 11:14 AM IST
Hall carried his bat for Yorkshire 14 times. Nobody else has done this more than 8 times.
Zimbabwe vs Pakistan, 4th ODI: Fakhar Zaman smashes first 200 for Pakistan
CricketCountry StaffJuly 20, 2018 9:10 PM IST
Overall, Zaman is the sixth male batsman in ODI cricket to touch 200, after Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle and Martin Guptill.
The day Harmanpreet Kaur descended upon Derby
Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 20, 2018 12:01 AM IST
India Women were 101 for 3 after 25 overs. Then all hell broke loose.
What made Maurice Tate switch from spin to seam
Pradip DholeJuly 9, 2018 5:04 PM IST
“Maurice, tired and perhaps annoyed at the veteran batsman’s contemptuous treatment of those slow off-breaks, suddenly increased his pace and swung his body for all
Thomas Dale: A cricketer arrested for playing under an alias
Pradip DholeJune 29, 2018 10:13 PM IST
Thomas Dale changed his name to Thomas Jordan. Things did not go too well when they found out.
'The Vagabond' who kickstarted England-Australia cricket tours
Pradip DholeJune 25, 2018 7:20 PM IST
John Stanley James changed his name to Dr Stanley James, then to Julian Thomas, and wrote under the pseudonym of The Vagabond.

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