On the occasion of the legendary Viv Richards’s 63rd birthday on Saturday, Joy Bhattacharjya shared an interesting anecdote involving Richards and Wasim Akram.
Ramchand was at a cricket awards ceremony in the 1990s where, predictably, very few people recognised him.
Virender Sehwag had a stint with English county cricket club Leicestershire.
Abbas Ali Baig has an interesting tale to about himself and his Oxford, India and Hyderabad team-mate, his good friend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi.
When Ian Chappell wanted to learn more about Tiger Pataudi.
Whenever there is talk of Tiger Pataudi, his royal background and his general aloofness is invariable mentioned.
Tiger Pataudi was one of the enduring mystiques of Indian cricket.
Syed Kirmani, the former Indian wicketkeeper, was first picked as a reserve wicketkeeper for the historic tour to England in 1971.
21 year-old man who, on waking up in a few hours from his sleep on the roadside, would be making his Test debut for India against Australia in a Test starting on New Year’s Day of 1960 at Bombay’s Brabourne Stadium — not very far from the road where he slept.
None of the New Zealand casualties had to face the kind of embarrassment Ewen Chatfield did.