Abhimanyu Easwaran became the second Indian cricketer to score twin tons in the same city twice.
In 1880, The Oval hosted the first Test on English soil.
Cricket in Montreal has never really been the most popular of pastimes. Not even in 1872 when a 24-year-old WG Grace was one of the members of RA Fitzgerald’s all-amateur side touring Canada and North America.
Across England there are pubs whose names resonate with cricketing connections.
August 23, 1870. A match between the United North of England and the United South of England saw one of the most eventful deliveries of all time. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the event.
There were a lot of things WG Grace was capable of, but declaring his team innings closed in a ‘dead match’ because he had never made a certain score was fantastic even by his outrageous track record.
On August 2, 1876, Walter Gilbert (cousin of the Grace brothers) fell prey to one of the most curious ways ever.
Walter Gilbert rubbed shoulders with the brothers for Gloucestershire and WG Grace’s own Gentlemen of the South XI, and had a respectable, if not excellent, career of his own.
Invention and innovation have been, as a rule, part of cricket since its inception.
When one wanders through the lexicographic ordering of cricketers and pauses at G, it is this gargantuan great that stands there like a colossus.