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  • Place of Execution: Val McDermid’s fleeting connection with cricket

    Place of Execution: Val McDermid’s fleeting connection with cricket

    Arunabha SenguptaApril 11, 2018 9:24 PM IST

    The very first paragraph reads: “It was in Buxton, after all, that snow once stopped play in a county cricket match in June.” Can a

  • Laurie Lee knocked out by beer bottle during a Test match

    Laurie Lee knocked out by beer bottle during a Test match

    Abhishek MukherjeeApril 9, 2018 8:00 AM IST

    Laurie Lee, famous English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, had chosen the wrong day to watch cricket.

  • Unusual excerpts from an 1891 Indian cricket book

    Unusual excerpts from an 1891 Indian cricket book

    Abhishek MukherjeeJanuary 9, 2018 11:13 AM IST

    The author, Mohammad Abdullah Khan, had promised to ‘entertain’ the readers. He did a good job at it.

  • Savukshaw, Rohinton Mistry’s “greatest [cricketer] of them all”

    Savukshaw, Rohinton Mistry’s “greatest [cricketer] of them all”

    Abhishek MukherjeeDecember 8, 2017 4:09 PM IST

    Thanks to Savukshaw, things took such unusual proceedings that MCC’s annual ball budget took a serious toll.

  • Rupert Brooke: The cricketing connections of the youthful poet

    Rupert Brooke: The cricketing connections of the youthful poet

    Arunabha SenguptaOctober 3, 2017 8:00 AM IST

    Apart from cricket, Rupert Brooke was also more than competent at rugby.

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grandfather of an England captain did not know much about the game

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grandfather of an England captain did not know much about the game

    Arunabha SenguptaOctober 2, 2017 7:30 AM IST

    Lord Tennyson knew that there was bowling, and something called stumping, involved in cricket, but...

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cricketing notes

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cricketing notes

    Arunabha SenguptaSeptember 28, 2017 8:00 AM IST

    There is evidence to suggest that Elizabeth Barrett Browning played a bit of cricket at Colwall Green, under the Malvern Hills.

  • Byron’s poetic trysts with cricket

    Byron’s poetic trysts with cricket

    Arunabha SenguptaSeptember 30, 2017 8:00 AM IST

    Eton won the match against Lord Byron’s Harrow and followed it with a poem to rub it in. Byron rose to the challenge.

  • Byron’s foray onto the cricket pitch

    Byron’s foray onto the cricket pitch

    Arunabha SenguptaSeptember 21, 2017 3:22 PM IST

    Lord Byron had a club foot. However, he did venture onto the cricket pitch in the rather prestigious Eton vs Harrow encounter of 1805.

  • Rood leer op wilgenhout: One of the most unusual cricket books

    Rood leer op wilgenhout: One of the most unusual cricket books

    Arunabha SenguptaSeptember 25, 2017 8:00 AM IST

    The foreword makes this a truly incredible volume. It is by none other than AB de Villiers.

  • George Orwell’s wrath about cricket and war

    George Orwell’s wrath about cricket and war

    Arunabha SenguptaSeptember 20, 2017 7:30 AM IST

    George Orwell drew firm boundaries between cricket and war in a scathing letter.

  • Chapter 16: Clash of the Titans

    Chapter 16: Clash of the Titans

    S. Giridhar, V J RaghunathSeptember 4, 2017 9:09 PM IST

    If ever there was a head-on contest between two legends that decided the outcome of a game poised on knife’s edge, India vs Australia at

  • 1658: First mention of a cricket ball in literature

    1658: First mention of a cricket ball in literature

    Abhishek MukherjeeJuly 12, 2017 5:26 PM IST

    Edward Phillips Jr, perhaps unknowingly, made the first mention of a cricket ball in literature.

  • Cyril Ritchard’s Bodyline Song

    Cyril Ritchard’s Bodyline Song

    Arunabha SenguptaJuly 3, 2017 8:00 AM IST

    Cyril Ritchard, born December 1, 1898, was a famed Australian stage, screen and television actor and director.

  • Charles Dickens: Cricket and Edwin Drood

    Charles Dickens: Cricket and Edwin Drood

    Arunabha SenguptaJuly 1, 2017 12:00 PM IST

    Cricket did crop up in the work of Charles Dickens many a time.

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