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India vs Pakistan – World Championship of Cricket Final 1984-85

David Frith reports from Melbourne on the climax of the World Championship of Cricket Final, 1984-85. The tournament was staged by the Victorian Cricket Association to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the State AWA the world...

Arshad Ayub – Unathletic, Little Overweight But Effective

Profile Arshad Ayub is born on 2nd August 1958 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He’s a former off-spinner who played for India in 13 Test matches and 32 One Day Internationals between 1987 and 1994. The mini all-rounder Arshad Ayub normally...
Narendra Hirwani 1987-88 India v West Indies, 4th Test, Madras India won by 255 runs and Hirwani got 16 match wickets for 136 which remains the best debut match bowling figures to this day

Narendra Hirwani – A Man Who Created History on Test Debut

Narendra Hirwani is mainly remembered for his extraordinary success on his Test debut against West Indies in 1987-88. He is born on 18 October 1968 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. His main ability to bowl leg-spin, he played 17 test...
GR Vishwanath with Sunil Gavaskar

GR Vishwanath: Neil Harvey is My Hero

You don't have to know where GR Vishwanath lives. Ask anyone, especially a school kid or a collegian in Rajajinagar a suburb of Bangalore, he will only be too glad to walk all the way to show you the...

Farokh Engineer – Adventurous, Extravagant Wicket Keeper

Farokh Engineer batting was adventurous, the keeping extravagant, the smile ready. Overall, the exotic charm of Farokh Engineer was too much for cricket lovers. At Old Trafford in 1967, the so-called Summer of Love. Lancashire was anything but a...
Don Bradman (that man again) reached another milestone in his, career by making his 37th double century when I bowled him.

India vs Australia 4th Test Adelaide 1947-48

Vijay Harare recalling India vs Australia 4th Test Adelaide 1947-48. Three Tests went and I had yet done nothing of note. I (Vijay Hazare) had done well in other matches and felt confident of acquitting myself creditably if only...
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi raises his bat at leeds 1967

Ian Chappell on the Death of Nawab Tiger Pataudi

I was saddened to hear about the death of The Nawab Tiger Pataudi. The cricket world has lost a good ‘un ‘in tiger passing. I always found him wonderfully entertaining company and I don't ever have the recognition he...

The Majestic Sachin Tendulkar – 1989–2013

Sahin Tendulkar throughout the intervening period, at least up to late 2013 when he finally bowed out amid great fanfare in his home city of Mumbai, the little master continued to play the game at the highest level and,...
Muhammad Azhar-ud-din

Muhammad Azhar-ud-din – Unique, Cool and Calm

Muhammad Azhar-ud-din from Hyderabad, with three successive centuries in his initial three Tests, is already the boy wonder of the international game. West Indian Everton Weekes made five centuries in successive Tests, while his compatriot Clyde Walcott made five...
If there is one Indian cricketer today who is also an athlete in the true sense of the word; he is a fast bowler, Kapil Dev Nikhanj.

Kapil Dev – A True Quickie in The Making

If there is one Indian cricketer today who is also an athlete in the true sense of the word; he is a fast bowler, Kapil Dev Nikhanj. Nobody has ever called him by his surname, which is mentioned here...

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Hanif Muhammad Epic 337 Runs

In the First Test Match between Pakistan v, West Indies played at Kensington Oval Barbados Oval Bridgetown from Jan 17-23 1958. Pakistan, following 473...

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