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

Place of Execution: Val McDermid’s fleeting connection with cricket
IST 11 April 2018 •9:24 PM IST
Laurie Lee knocked out by beer bottle during a Test match

Laurie Lee knocked out by beer bottle during a Test match
09 April 2018 •8:00 AM IST
Excerpts from an unusual 1891 Indian cricket book

Excerpts from an unusual 1891 Indian cricket book
09 January 2018 •9:58 AM IST
Savukshaw, Rohinton Mistry’s “greatest [cricketer] of them all”

Savukshaw, Rohinton Mistry’s “greatest [cricketer] of them all”
08 December 2017 •12:16 PM IST
Rupert Brooke: The cricketing connections of the youthful poet

Rupert Brooke: The cricketing connections of the youthful poet
03 October 2017 •8:00 AM IST

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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

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

02 October 2017 •7:30 AM IST
Lord Byron’s poetic trysts with cricket

Lord Byron’s poetic trysts with cricket

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

30 September 2017 •8:00 AM IST
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cricketing notes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cricketing notes

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

28 September 2017 •8:00 AM IST
Rood leer op wilgenhout: One of the most unusual cricket books

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

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

25 September 2017 •8:00 AM IST
George Orwell’s wrath about cricket and war

George Orwell’s wrath about cricket and war

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

20 September 2017 •7:30 AM IST
Lord Byron’s foray onto the cricket pitch

Lord Byron’s foray onto the cricket pitch

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

12 September 2017 •10:00 AM IST
From Mumbai to Durban, India’s Greatest Tests: Clash of the Titans

From Mumbai to Durban, India’s Greatest Tests: Clash of the Titans

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 Chennai in 1998 was such a game.

04 September 2017 •9:09 PM IST
1658: First mention of a cricket ball in literature

1658: First mention of a cricket ball in literature

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

12 July 2017 •7:51 AM IST
Cyril Ritchard’s Bodyline Song

Cyril Ritchard’s Bodyline Song

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

03 July 2017 •8:00 AM IST
Charles Dickens: Cricket and Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens: Cricket and Edwin Drood

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

01 July 2017 •12:00 PM IST

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