India vs England – When is a Stand not a Partnership?
This is the match report of the Fifth Test between India vs England at Chidambaram Stadium at Madras Jan, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 1983. This was a Test of records, and inevitably a draw, to make four in...
Sunil Gavaskar – The Maharaja of Mumbai
The curtain fell on the Reliance World Cup it was time to salute a retiring hero whose final game was played in its urgent rush. Sunil Gavaskar has never been a run machine. Despite those 10,000 Test runs he...
The End for Huddersfield
Huddersfield - a Yorkshire county out the ground from the past. As with Headingley, the cricket ground was joined onto a rugby league ground Richards, Greenidge, and Tavaré all had their day here. The WCM article was interesting to...
Brian Lara 501 Not Out – Climbs the Highest Peak of First-Class Cricket
On the day that thousands commemorated the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, across the channel at Edgbaston the cricket world was applauding another battle, one led single-handedly by West Indies batsman Brian Lara. In a County Championship match,...
The Twin Identities of Lala Amarnath
Lala Amarnath is the most romantic figure of early Indian Test cricket. As a young tearaway, he scored a century on debut for India against England in Bombay in 1933. He was later sent home for indiscipline by his...
Sir Viv Richards – The Most Fearsome Master Blaster
West Indies Sir Viv Richards fell into the same category as Chappell another player who has always wanted to be the master of bowlers. I don't think lies are as technically sound as Chappell was, but there's not a...
Vivian Richards – Indeed A Dream Cricketer
The sight of Vivian Richards standing bare-chested in the visiting team's balcony at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium is still vivid in one's memory. It was November 1983 in Delhi and people were clothed in woolens. But Viv Richards was...
Ajit Wadekar – Led India to First Ever Series Wins in Eng and West...
Ajit Wadekar - Led India to First-Ever Series Wins in Eng & West Indies. The dressing room was very quiet. Not a word was said as he came in and sat down. He removed his cap and took off...
Sunil Gavaskar Goes On – Solkar Goes
Sunil Gavaskar appointment as captain for the inaugural Test and three one-day internationals against the touring Sri Lanka team was but to be expected. Speculation about a new captain had sprung from concern over the great opening batsman's physical...
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...
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The First Decade of Pakistan Cricket
At the outset, let it be appreciated that the task of any historian or chronicler attempting to condense seventy years of Pakistan cricket into...
