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Charles Dickens
Sat, July 01 2017
Charles Dickens: Cricket and Edwin Drood
Cricket did crop up in the work of Charles Dickens many a time.
Thu, July 28 2016
When Keats dismissed Charles Dickens in cricket!
Of course, not the Charles Dickens and Keats we come across in the pantheon of greatest writers, but their lesser-known namesakes nevertheless.
Tue, August 18 2015
All Muggleton, Dingley Dellers and much more—Charles Dickens and his connections to cricket
The first tour of English cricketers to Australia, in 1861-62, took place as a replacement show because Charles Dickens had refused to travel that far to give his celebrated readings. But the great writer was connected to the game in many more ways. Arunabha Sengupta sketches the various links between the noble game and the...
Fri, October 17 2014
A Dickensian XI – a team linked to the characters of Charles Dickens
The legendary names of cricket who share their names with Dickensian characters join in a playing XI.
Sat, September 05 2015
HG Wells: A short cricketing history of the great writer
HG Wells, born September 21, 1866, was one of the greatest authors in English language. However, it is rarely recounted that his father Joseph Wells was a useful First-class cricketer and Wells himself harboured a passion for the game even if he did not play it. Arunabha Sengupta traces the cricketing connections of the author of 'The War of the Worlds’ and talks about a brilliant essay he penned about cricket.
Sat, February 11 2012
Did you know Shakespeare, Napoleon and even Christ played cricket?!!
Nearly two millennia after leading the Roman invasion of Britain, batsman Julius Caesar made three centuries for Surreyduring the Victorian era. Like the first Roman Emperor, he also came to a sudden and rather unfortunate end in the month of March — nine days before the Ides -throwing himself underneath a train in 1878.