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ML Jaisimha

VVS Laxman at Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture: We all play the game for sheer love

“Pink-ball cricket gives people the opportunity of coming to the cricket after a day at work, and if that opportunity can be allied to quality fare and amenities that the fans will enjoy, I am certain we will have a winning product.”

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VVS Laxman credits late ML Jaisimha for international success

VVS Laxman said it was the ex-Hyderabad captain's advice which paved the way for his success in the national team.

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10 Greek Gods in Indian cricket between the 1960s and 1980s

Cricketers today enjoy rock star-like status. They earn megabucks, live a lavish lifestyle and rub shoulders with the rich and the famous. They flaunt a range of high-end cars accompanied by some of the most ravishingly beautiful women around.

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Pataudi Lecture 2014 to be delivered by VVS Laxman at Eden Gardens

Former India all-rounders Chandu Borde and Salim Durani would also be part of the celebrations.

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Sunil Gavaskar: 15 non-cricketing things you possibly did not know about the maestro

Sunil Gavaskar did not get to meet his only child, Rohan, till he was two months old.

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Sunil Gavaskar scores a world record 774 runs in his debut series

On April 19, 1971, Sunil Gavaskar ended his final innings on that epoch making West Indies tour with a 529-minute effort of 220. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the feats of a hundred and a double hundred in the same match, and 774 runs in a series.

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ML Jaisimha steps out of a plane and scores 74 and 101 in the Brisbane Test

The day ML Jaisimha defied laws of cricket and jet-lag.

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India vs England stats review: Fourth Test match at Nagpur, Day Three

Statistical highlights of the third day's play of the fourth Test between India and England at Nagpur on Saturday.

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ML Jaisimha: The man who stepped out of the plane and scored a Test hundred!

Classy in whatever he did on and off the field, ML Jaisimha is one of the seven players who are to be posthumously honoured by BCCI. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the career of the batsman who stepped out of the plane to score a hundred in the 1968 Brisbane Test.

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BCCI to honour Sunil Gavaskar with Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

  Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar will be conferred the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award at the annual BCCI awards function.     The BCCI's Col CK Nayudu Award Committee met here on Thursday and decided to confer the honour on the legendary opener, a release from BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale said.   The...

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