Garry Sobers

Stats across eras 5: A detailed look at scoring – team by team, decade by decade

In the first part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta had claimed run scoring had become standardised by the 1920s and remained more or less constant after that. In this episode he looks in greater detail, team by team, at every decade between 1920 and 2000, and finds that contrary to popular perception, batting did not get increasingly easier.

Will help youngsters to do well and improve their game: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who became only the 10th player in history to surpass 10,000 Test runs, has pledged to continue helping the next generation of West Indies batsmen.

Stats across eras 2: Bradman, Sobers, Tendulkar… top batsmen by decades

In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades, and finds that the career average actually does not quite lie.

Salim Durani – a multi-skilled genius who would have been perfect for IPL

Salim Durani is a mystical figure among the titans of Indian cricket. He could change the course of the matches swiftly and win them by the genius of his batting or bowling.

Sir Garfield Sobers’ six sixes ball up for auction

The cricket ball which was famously hit for six sixes in an over by Sir Garfield Sobers is expected to fetch 25,000 pounds at an auction.

Cricketing Rifts 11 – Multiple issues around Boycott and Botham

The Dhoni-Sehwag rift may have been true or blown out of proportion by the media. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game. In this series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar will retire when he wants to: Lata Mangeshkar

By Subhash K Jha

Lata Mangeshkar is jubilant about Sachin Tendulkar scoring his 100th Test ton but is unhappy about suggestions that he retire from the game.

Memorable quotes on Sachin Tendulkar

By CricketCountry Staff

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel - Sir Donald Bradman.

Cricketing Rifts 5: 1950s – Many mutinies against the skippers

The Dhoni-Sehwag rift may have been true or blown out of proportion by the media. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game. In this series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket. 

Fazal Mahmood: Predecessor to Imran Khan, Wasim Akram in the great line of Pakistan pacers

Fazal Mahmood was a man of myriad hues.