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Rohan Kanhai
Tue, June 27 2017
The K’s: Solid batsmen, quality all-rounders and a surfeit of wicketkeepers to choose from
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with K, CricketCountry's Historian Arunabha Sengupta finds plenty of quality all-rounders and wicketkeepers to choose from.
Wed, July 06 2016
Trivia on runners, an extinct species of cricket
There have three instances in Test cricket history where the middle has been populated by four men in batting gear.
Mon, February 29 2016
Alf Gover: 13 famous cricketing students of one of game’s best player-makers
A jack of all trades, Alf Gover was a journalist besides being a cricketer, trainer and technical adviser of 1953-film ‘The Final Test’. He even served the army during the 1939-45 War as a company sergeant major, before rising to the rank of major.
Wed, June 22 2016
WATCH: Rohan Kanhai’s brilliant 55 against Australia in World Cup 1975 final
Rohan Kanhai plays cover drive, cuts and pulls the ball.
Tue, August 16 2016
Shivnarine Chanderpaul: 11 interesting things to know about West Indies’ evergreen batsman
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is one of the leading run-scorers in Test history and West Indies’ second-highest run-scorer after Brian Lara.
Thu, July 28 2016
Garry Sobers: 10 anecdotes about the greatest all-rounder the world has seen
Garry Sobers is arguably the greatest cricketer the world has seen. In 93 Tests, he scored 8032 runs at an average of 57.78 with 26 tons — one of them being the then record of 365 not out.
Mon, December 26 2016
Rohan Kanhai: 10 facts to know about the West Indian batsman
Rohan Kanhai, born on December 26, 1935, is one of the greatest batsmen to have played for the West Indies.
Fri, December 25 2015
Rohan Kanhai scores eight runs from a single stroke
There was no overthrow involved, mind you.
Wed, July 02 2014
John Jameson and Rohan Kanhai plunder a world record 465 runs for the second wicket
On July 27, 1974, West Indies's batting great Rohan Kanhai and Englishman John Jameson were involved in a world record partnership of 465 runs for the second-wicket for Warwickshire against Gloucestershire at Edgbaston. Sarang Bhalerao recalls the historic day for world cricket.
Fri, April 19 2013
Sunil Gavaskar scores a world record 774 runs in his debut series
On April 19, 1971, Sunil Gavaskar ended his final innings on that epoch making West Indies tour with a 529-minute effort of 220. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the feats of a hundred and a double hundred in the same match, and 774 runs in a series.