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Wilfred Rhodes
Thu, September 14 2017
‘Ambidextrous’ XI 1: Right-handed batsmen, left-handed bowlers
Here is a list of those who batted right-handed hand and bowled left-arm.
Sun, July 02 2017
The R’s: Superb batting and versatile bowling from a problem of plenty
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with R, CricketCountry Historian Arunabha Sengupta has to pick and choose from a number of superlative cricketers to have played the game.
Wed, January 18 2017
502 to win: The glory of the Golden Age
The period between 1890 and 1914 was like any other era, with almost the same mix of dashing daredevilry with the bat and methodically precise stonewalling.
Sat, November 19 2016
Bill Storer and other bowling wicketkeepers
A commonly asked trivia question links a giant of the cricket world with a giant of the literary world, as follows: Who is the only First-Class victim of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Mon, February 22 2016
Dream Team: A Test XI of all-rounders
Creating a dream Test XI of all-rounders presents an interesting headache.
Fri, December 16 2016
15 iconic quotes on Jack Hobbs
Hobbs was a legend of his era and is still remembered for his contribution towards cricket.
Sat, October 29 2016
Wilfred Rhodes: 15 startling statistics about the English legend
Rhodes has played 1,110 First-Class matches in his career and owns the record by quite a margin as the second placed Frank Woolley has 978 matches.
Thu, September 17 2015
Rhodes, Hill, Trumper, Haigh: How believable are player memories?
The memories of cricketers are as fallible and prone to errors as the romantic imagination of cricket writers and fans.
Mon, June 09 2014
Shivnarine Chanderpaul and others with 20-year long careers
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is seventeenth in the list with a career spanning for 20 or more years.
Thu, December 03 2015
Trevor Bailey: One of the greatest all-rounders produced by England
Trevor Bailey is remembered as a dour, stonewalling batsman with the fitting nickname Barnacle. However, there was much more to his cricket — including an array of strokes seldom unveiled, incisive fast-medium bowling and superb close to the wicket catching.