Curtly Ambrose

Alphabetical XIs: Anwar, Akram, Amla and Ambrose make a strong ‘A’-Team

Players with last names starting with A.

Ian Bishop – a fast bowler whose career was destroyed by injuries

Ian Bishop (born October 24, 1967) had the potential to be one of the great fast bowlers in Test history. However, injuries destroyed the career of this gentleman fast bowler from the Caribbean Islands. Nishad Pai Vaidya looks back at the career of Bishop who is celebrating his 45th birthday today.

Curtly Ambrose calls for regional effort to recapture glory days

Fast bowling legend Curtly Ambrose says regional effort is needed if West Indies cricket is to recapture its glory days and return to the upper echelons of the world game.

Happy birthday, Curtly Ambrose and Chris Gayle!

Forty-nine years ago, Curtly Ambrose was born on this date. Sixteen years later, Chris Gayle was born on the same date. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at one of the last torch-bearers of the West Indian fast bowling legacy and one of the most destructive batsmen in contemporary cricket.

Brian Lara remembers his memorable moments against Pakistan

Brian Lara, who was recently inducted in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame, along with Englishwoman Enid Bakewell, shares some memorable moments he had spent against the Pakistan team. Lara joined 66 male members of the Hall of Fame while Bakewell became the third women to be inducted. The formal induction took place...

19 super-talented cricketers who never played Test cricket

Would Padmakar Shivalkar be considered among the best left-arm spinners of his day? Wouldn’t it make sense to rank Vince van der Bijl ahead of Rodney Hogg as a fast bowler, although the former never played Test cricket?  Arunabha Sengupta lists 20 cricketers who were the best of their day, but never got to play at the highest level.

VVS Laxman: The story of India’s greatest match winner in Tests

The game of cricket has been shorn of the elegant graces with the unexpected retirement of VVS Laxman. While most batsmen were absorbed in the science of batsmanship, Laxman enthralled spectators the world over by bringing out the fine arts of the game like few have in the history of the game.

Depleting fast bowling resources suffers another blow with the exit of Brett Lee

Brett Lee’s retirement deals another cruel blow to the already diminishing treasury of fast bowlers. While casting an uneasy eye at the future, Arunabha Sengupta discusses the many fast men who have retired in the past decade and a bit, while evaluating where Lee stood amidst the great names.

Humour: BCCI opens sperm bank of greats to diversify Indian cricketing gene pool

Alarmed by the shrinking talent pool in domestic cricket and poor prospects of unearthing genuine pace bowlers or finding replacements for the aging batting legends, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has unveiled a radical plan to arrest Indian cricket’s inevitable decline – setting up of a sperm bank with donors exclusively comprising international cricketing greats so that Indian women can also aspire to be proud mothers of six foot, six hulks like Chris Gayle or speed demons like Dale Steyn.

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.