Friday, November 28, 2014

Phil Hughes - Sound, Fury and Silence

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Harish Dwivedi, the chief editor of emerging website Cricket@SpeedofThought, was fuming. “What do you mean you can’t trace him?” ...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Wodehouse at the wicket - the cricketing connections of the legendary writer

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PG Wodehouse, the greatest humorist in English language, wrote quite a bit about cricket and was a useful cricketer himself.  Arunabha Seng...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

The day Kapil Dev and Kiran More became Little Brother Big Brother

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The old days of Hindi commentary did have some memorable moments.  Arunabha Sengupta  remembers one such from this day 25 years ago, when th...

John Snow - The cricket rebel and fast bowling poet

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Few batsmen ever managed to play him comfortably, but  John Snow  had plenty of trouble dealing with his own captains and management. Howeve...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Vijay Merchant - his First-class average is next only to the legendary Don Bradman

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Although he managed to play just 10 Test matches in his career, Vijay Merchant still stands as one of the greatest batsmen produced by India...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

A near-miracle by Dave Houghton which ended with Martin Crowe's unbelievable catch

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In the early days of the Reliance World Cup 1987, David Houghton conjured up a magical century to take Zimbabwe within a gasp of victory ag...
Monday, October 8, 2012

The day Kapil Dev's sporting spirit cost India a World Cup match by the narrowest of margins

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On this day 25 years ago, Australia rode a wonderful gesture of sportsmanship to win a cliff-hanger against India in the 1987 World Cup.  Ar...