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Bobby Peel
Sun, July 02 2017
The P’s: Great batsmen, fantastic bowling attack, superb team
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with P, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta finds a plethora of great batsmen and some of the most fantastic bowlers to have played the game.
Tue, June 21 2016
Gas-lamp Game: When Surrey and Yorkshire played at The Oval in total darkness
Andrew Ward described it as ‘a game finishing in such poor light that conditions were more favourable to live bats than dead ones’.
Tue, October 29 2013
Ashes 1888: Australia lose 18 wickets before lunch at Old Trafford
As many as 18 wickets fell before lunch on August 31, 1888 as England got caught on a 'sticky’ wicket. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the day when Bobby Peel and treacherous combined to claim the Ashes for England.
Tue, February 09 2016
Ashes 1894-95: England become first team in Test history to win after following-on
"Give me the ball, Mr. Stoddart, and I’ll have the buggers out before lunch," said a stone-drunk Bobby Peel. And he did.