Len Hutton

Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor will be like me replacing Len Hutton: Geoff Boycott

Former England and Yorkshire batsman Sir Geoffrey Boycott, who is a Manchester United fan, compared the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson to his own replacement of Len Hutton in England’s batting line-up in the 1960s.

Alf Valentine: One-half of the famous West Indian spin twins

Alf Valentine was the first West Indian to take a hundred Test wickets.

New Zealand bowled out for 26, lowest ever score in a Test innings

New Zealand's 26 has been challenged several times, but never beaten.

Alastair Cook – right up there with the Test cricket’s great openers

Alastair Cook has had a sensational series so far and his claims to greatness have been reasserted. Arunabha Sengupta analyses to see that, at the current moment, his 85 Test- career places him alongside the best openers in the history of the game.

Len Hutton – Broke the Highest Individual Test Score in his Sixth Outing

Len Hutton - Broke the Highest Individual Test Score in his Sixth Outing

Michael Clarke joins Don Bradman as the only player with one triple and two double centuries in the same year

By scoring 259 not out at Brisbane, Michael Clarke has walked into a very, very elite club whose sole member thus was Sir Don Bradman. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the feat of two double hundreds and one triple hundred within a year.

England will rue the absence of Andrew Strauss the leader

By Devarchit Varma 

The media and cricket fraternity may go speculating the reasons for Strauss’ sudden retirement and some link it to the Kevin Pietersen row. Whatever be the reasons, here is no doubt that Strauss’ decision has put England in bit of a bother. 

Commentators in cricket history – 2: BBC’s Howard Marshall

Howard Marshall, along with BBC director Seymour de Lotbini re, formed the equivalent of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe in the art of cricket commentary, setting the tone and benchmarks that would be followed by BBC and Test Match Special for years to come. In the second part of the series on broadcasters, Arunabha Sengupta replays the first popular English voice of ball by ball commentary.

Cricketing Rifts 5: 1950s – Many mutinies against the skippers

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. In this series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket. 

Saxena’s knock in Ranji final third longest innings in first-class cricket

Rajasthan opener Vineet Saxena's 257 against Tamil Nadu is the third longest innings in terms of minutes by any batsman in the history of first-class game.