Indian ace batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who will retire from Test cricket after playing against the West Indies in his landmark 200th match in Mumbai next month, has been named in the Wisden all-time World Test XI. Tendulkar, has been put at the number four spot in the team announced to mark 150 years of ‘Bible...
Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and Australian spin wizard Shane Warne have been named in Wisden’s all-time World Test XI.
In between their superlative performance to overcome the Australians at Adelaide, the England players fought a bushfire to save the residence of the Governor-General of South Australia.
Syd Barnes reduced the Australians to 11 for 4 within the first hour. Then, in the final innings, Jack Hobbs played one of the most silken knocks to win the game.
On December 16, 1911, Victor Trumper scored the last Test century of his fantastic career and England stumbled to a huge defeat. Arunabha Sengupta revisits the day when the tourists were perhaps done in by a curious piece of strategy.
Syd Barnes took 189 wickets in Test at 16.43 and 6,229 wickets at 8.33 in all forms of cricket.