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Anindya Dutta

Anindya Dutta Anindya Dutta is a Banker by profession and a Sports Columnist by passion. He writes in Cricket Country and on the Australian website The Roar, primarily on Cricket History. He is also an occasional columnist in Sportstar, ESPNCricinfo and a couple of Indian regional dailies. He lives in Singapore.

News By Anindya Dutta

Memories of other afternoons: DB Deodhar and CK Nayudu play the two most important innings in Indian cricket

In the English summer of 1932, India played her first Test, at Lord’s.

11 September 2017 •6:32 PM

Making (Cricket in) America Great Again – Part 2: Building a sustainable future

USA is producing some excellent Under-19 cricketers. Last month they narrowly lost out to Canada for a place in the Under-19 World Cup to be held in 2019.

02 August 2017 •4:12 PM

Making (Cricket in) America Great Again, Part 1 or 2: Glorious past to uncertain future

Since 2005, one controversy after another rocked the sport in the USA, with USACA being suspended from the ICC in 2005 and then again in 2015, before finally being expelled in 2017.

01 August 2017 •5:55 PM

India are aiming for cricket Gold at the Maccabiah Olympics

Bensiyon Morisbhai Songavkar will be proudly bleeding blue when he leads the Indian cricket team on to the field in Jerusalem next Friday for India’s first match against Israel at the 20th Maccabiah Games.

29 June 2017 •4:36 PM

The Fabulous Five: Story of youngest centurions on Test debut

Cricket has evolved beyond recognition from the time of its founding, particularly so in the past 14 years, with the advent of the T20 format.

08 June 2017 •9:40 PM

KS Ranjitsinhji: The Maharaja of Elegance — and of Nawanagar

For Neville Cardus, there was far more to Ranji than his leg-glance, something almost mystical in the way that he played his game, indeed in the way he approached the game.

28 April 2017 •6:41 PM

How many runs can you score in 4 balls? More than you think!

In a bizarre fashion, a club team in Bangladesh lost a match as their new-ball bowler bowled only 4 legitimate deliveries and conceded 92 runs.

12 April 2017 •3:29 PM

The Day of the Yadav

Being a bit of a cricket fan himself, Frederick Forsyth will not mind if we label the twenty-fifth day of March as The Day of the Yadav.

26 March 2017 •12:23 PM

A Messerschmitt up your arse and other War Stories

“Pressure? There is no pressure in Test cricket. Real pressure is when you are flying a Mosquito with a Messerschmitt up your arse.”

14 March 2017 •8:46 PM

We are the Inglorious: Most undeserving Test XI of all time

It is a fact of life that very few go on to have careers like a Don Bradman, a Brian Lara, a Steve Waugh, a Sachin Tendulkar, a Shane Warne or a Glenn McGrath.

04 March 2017 •12:02 AM

Shahid Afridi quits: Cricket’s Peter Pan lays his bat down

Shahid ‘Boom Boom’ Afridi was never about elegance, always about adrenaline; and pure unadulterated hormone-inducing, blood-pressure-raising, heart-stopping entertainment.

20 February 2017 •1:35 PM

Head and Shoulders above the rest: The Giants of Cricket

Viv Richards. Sachin Tendulkar. Sunil Gavaskar. Brian Lara - None of them make the cut. They just did not have it in them. Virat Kohli. Steven Smith. Kane Williamson - They do not make it either. The bar, unfortunately, is set too high for these wonderful cricketers.

30 January 2017 •1:40 PM