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WG Grace
Tue, July 08 2014
Ashes 1884: Wicketkeeper Alfred Lyttelton takes 4 wickets as all 11 players get to bowl
Hon. Alfred Lyttelton removed his gloves to pick up four wickets at The Oval on August 12, 1884. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at a spell that broke all kinds of bowling records.
Mon, July 07 2014
Ashes 1882: Death and WG Grace — the 10-minute mystery surrounding the match
August 29, 1882. England failed to get the 85 runs to win a spectacular thriller of a match and it resulted in the lore of The Ashes. However, was it only English cricket that had supposedly died that day? Did other deaths have some bearing on the result? Why were10 minutes mysteriously added to the innings break? Arunabha Sengupta looks at some myths and legends to unearth the truth behind the tales.
Thu, July 03 2014
WG Grace scores third triple hundred of his career
On August 6, 1896, William Gilbert Grace scored the third triple hundred of his career, against Sussex. At 47, Grace still had an insatiable hunger to score runs. Sarang Bhalerao revisits one of Grace’s masterpieces.
Mon, July 25 2016
Gloucestershire vs Lancashire called off following demise of WG Grace’s mother Martha
The death of Martha Grace led to the abandonment of a Championship match between Gloucestershire and Lancashire. It is the only known occasion when a First-Class match has been abandoned for such a reason.
Mon, July 18 2016
WG Grace: The Father of Cricket
WG Grace is a character of near mythical proportions, striding across the pages of cricket history like a Colossus. His legend continues to be too difficult to capture in a single article.
Thu, May 26 2016
MCC vs Australians at Lord’s, 1878: The most important match for the development of international cricket
Before the first Test was played in England, a team of travelling Australian cricketers met a strong MCC side at Lord’s. The match ended within a single day and did more for establishing international cricket than any played before or since.
Fri, June 07 2013
Match-fixing before IPL: Alfred Mynn’s misdemeanours in 1840s and 1850s
With the shady deals surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL) providing a murky background, Arunabha Sengupta takes a look at the earliest instance of a First-Class match being fixed — and ends up in the mid-19th century.
Tue, June 04 2013
How about a game between Fixers versus Non-Fixers?
In the late 19th century, English and Australian cricketers formed combined teams to play games billed as Smokers versus Non-Smokers. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the two encounters between the addicts and the tobacco free and wonders whether such games can be organised for the current day categories – Fixers and Non-Fixers.
Sun, May 29 2016
WG Grace becomes first to score 1,000 runs by May in an English season
Of the nine occasions when a batsman had reached a thousand Test runs by May, WG Grace was the last to start his season as late as May 9.