×

Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts disappointed after Clive Lloyd ignored for WICB Presidential nomination

Legendary West Indian fast bowler Andy Roberts expressed his disappointment after former teammate Clive Lloyd failed to find the required support to be nominated as president of West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Continue Reading

Powerful weapons!

Powerful weapons!

Continue Reading

Gundappa Viswanath’s virtuoso solo act masters might of West Indies attack at Madras

The 97 not out GR Viswanath scored against crushing odds and the fury of Andy Roberts at Madras on January 11, 1975, is considered among the rare gems of Test cricket. H Natarajan explains why this innings is rated among the great epics of the game.

Continue Reading

Gundappa Viswanath’s 139: Great knock on a difficult wicket against top-class bowling

A Gundappa Viswanath classic at Eden Gardens, against West Indies.

Continue Reading

Ravichandran Ashwin becomes fastest Indian to take 50 wickets in Test cricket

Ravichandran Ashwin has become the fastest India to record 50 wickets in Test matches as he overhauled the milestone in his ninth game. He achieved it when he dismissed the England opener Nick Compton on the second day of the first Test at Ahmedabad.

Continue Reading

Andy Roberts urges West Indies to carry good run in other forms of cricket

Former pacer Andy Roberts has urged ICC World Twenty20 2012 winners West Indies to transform their form in the other forms of the game.

Continue Reading

Sunil Gavaskar’s views could have lent more value to Fire in Babylon: Imran Khan

By CricketCountry Staff

 

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan feels, views of Sunil Gavaskar would have added more value to the newly released movie in India 'Fire in Babylon’ — a film on West Indies cricket in the 1970s and 1980s.   

Continue Reading

Treat for cricket fans as Fire in Babylon releases today in Indian theatres

'Fire in Babylon’ releases in India today, a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the West Indies cricket team into a fearsome superpower running on a battery of pace bowlers. Arunabha Sengupta turns a critical eye at the movie which shows some of the scariest spells of fast bowling.

Continue Reading

West Indies can’t hope for succour against England in Robin Hood county

By Rohan Kallicharan

 

Nottingham has many things for which it is well known. Robin Hood and Nottingham Forest are just two that readily come to mind, the latter in reference to the football team and not the patch of woodland to the North of the city in which the former was known to operate.

Continue Reading

Cricketing Rifts 21: Holding’s kick and Croft’s shoulder charge

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

Continue Reading

trending this week