Wg Grace

17 best performances by players after they turned 40

IST 24 April 2013 •12:39 PM IST

Hansie Cronje confesses to taking money from bookmakers

11 April 2013 •9:52 AM IST

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack is now 150 not out

10 April 2013 •5:16 PM IST

Sachin Tendulkar on the threshold of another monstrous record

21 October 2012 •8:01 AM IST

Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni, and 25 other superstitious cricketers

17 September 2012 •9:58 AM IST

Wg Grace News

WG Grace’s century on debut and the first Test in England

Exactly 132 years ago, the first Test match was played on English soil. It was also the debut of the great WG Grace. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the historic match at The Oval which culminated in a thrilling finish.

06 September 2012 •9:13 AM IST

Eight days in which WG Grace shook the cricketing world

Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the amazing exploits of WG Grace during one of his most celebrated purple patches, 136 years ago. It stunned the cricketing world, even in those days of limited communications.

18 August 2012 •11:33 AM IST

The day broomsticks took on bats

WG Grace finished things off early with ball. Then EM Grace took over... with a broomstick...

15 August 2012 •12:22 PM IST

When the scorebook read ‘Not Out — Dead’ for Andy Ducat

Andy Ducat played a ball down to mid on and collapsed to his death. The match was called off immediately on mutual consent. The scorecard read "not out — dead".

23 July 2012 •11:32 AM IST

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A curious cricketer

July 7, marks the 82nd death anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Arunabha Sengupta sketches the many cricketing connections of the man who created Sherlock Holmes.

07 July 2012 •10:34 AM IST

Commentators in cricket history – 6: EW “Jim” Swanton – The old reliable

A man who got the 1939 Wisden stamped as Not Subversive by the Japanese at a Prisoner of War camp, EW Swanton was one of the pioneering commentators and a regular member of the Test Match Special team.

01 July 2012 •11:01 AM IST

Cricketing Rifts 20: Fall from Grace – Misdemeanours of the father of cricket

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. Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket. In this episode he revisits some of the ugly confrontations during the not so innocent days of WG Grace.

28 April 2012 •1:12 PM IST

Stats across eras 2: Bradman, Sobers, Tendulkar… top batsmen by decades

In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades, and finds that the career average actually does not quite lie.

26 April 2012 •11:35 AM IST

Cricket writer Gideon Haigh hails Sachin Tendulkar

By CricketCountry Staff

Renowned Australian cricket writer Gideon Haigh hailed Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar as a great player capable of 'inventing’ a record.

25 December 2011 •9:20 PM IST

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery — Part 5 of 10

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery is a tale of detection etched on a vast canvas. A cricket historian plays the role of an expert hired to solve an intriguing problem involving old scoring sheets, fast hundreds, modern-art masterpieces, antique wagon wheels and old Victorian letters.

04 November 2011 •10:32 AM IST

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