Arunabha Sengupta

Historian

Author: Arunabha Sengupta

Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian. He writes about the history of cricket, with occasional statistical pieces and reflections on the modern game. He is also the author of four novels, the most recent being Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes. He tweets @senantix

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Anil Kumble’s little-known miracle for Northamptonshire
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 28, 2018 11:04 AM IST
Nottinghamshire won the toss, piled up 527 and still managed to lose by an innings. Anil Kumble claimed 4 for 118 and 5 for 43.
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 7: Some minor West Indians
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 3, 2018 4:02 PM IST
Inshan Ali was a specialist Chinaman bowler. Bernard Julien was known mostly for bowling seam. And Roy Fredericks was a batsman who bowled at times.
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 3: Lindsay Kline
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 30, 2018 6:00 PM IST
Lindsay Kline averaged 22.82 with ball in Test cricket, doing particularly well overseas. Alas, he played only 13 Tests.
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 6: Maurice Leyland, Denis Compton, Arthur Morris
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 1, 2018 6:00 AM IST
Maurice Leyland was probably the person to coin the word 'Chinaman'. Denis Compton and Arthur Morris practised the art, too.
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.
Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 17, 2018 12:04 PM IST
The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones,
Match Report: The Neville Cardus Way
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 6, 2018 10:06 AM IST
Neville Cardus, often absent at the match, used to retrofit events based on the same entity he had proudly dismissed as an ass.
What if Neville Cardus wrote about T20 cricket?
Arunabha SenguptaJuly 4, 2018 11:53 AM IST
For Cardus T20s would have been no different. He would have parallels with the British Army in the colourful attire and the march of the
Gerald Brodribb: Forgotten cricket historian
Arunabha SenguptaMay 21, 2018 7:41 PM IST
"His work in cricket was painstaking — but alas almost unrecognised now, in this frantic age."
Sachin Tendulkar – The century of centuries in tweets
Abhishek Mukherjee, Arunabha SenguptaApril 24, 2018 11:35 AM IST
A ready reckoner of Sachin Tendulkar's hundred hundreds as they were scored.
Colin Bland: One of the greatest fielders of all time
Arunabha SenguptaApril 16, 2018 10:28 PM IST
At his peak, Colin Bland was acknowledged as the greatest ever fielder. He was perhaps the greatest before Jonty Rhodes.
Place of Execution: Val McDermid’s fleeting connection with cricket
Arunabha SenguptaApril 11, 2018 9:24 PM IST
The very first paragraph reads: “It was in Buxton, after all, that snow once stopped play in a county cricket match in June.” Can a

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