Umpire Piloo Reporter would spend much of his September Sundays on the Mumbai maidans, doing what he did best, which was officiate games with efficiency, mingle with the Kanga League fraternity, eat his wife Homai's prepared dry lunch, and...

Alan Ward would have made a perfect foil for John Snow had he been a faster right-arm bowler during his era. Derbyshire, Border, and Leicestershire Not many very tall fast bowlers have survived for long in top-class cricket, and...

Bharanaiah Vijayakrishna surfaced at a time when Erapali Prasanna and Chandrasekhar were ruling the roost. This did not deter this stout-hearted allrounder and when the right breaks came, he was there to grab them, though the national selectors developed...

The sight of Kerry O’Keeffe as one of Australia’s main bowlers in England signifies more than this spinner’s personal comeback from two years out of Test cricket. In the crowds at Lord’s and Old Trafford were people who had...

It is indisputable that Wasim Akram is the greatest left-arm fast bowler there has ever been. At his peak, there was no question that he had the speed to trouble the best batsman in the world. But he also...

A very strange case of Qasim Umer, by Pete Hook, assesses Pakistan's chances of success in England in 1987. The Pakistanis deserve every success they get because not only do they have to defeat their opponents, but they also...

Kevin Pietersen was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on June 27, 1980. He was a former cricketer who played both Tests and ODIs for England from 2005 to 2014. He made his debut for England in the 2005 Ashes...

David Gower said: Ian Botham, whom I played alongside in 87 Test matches, was a genius of self-belief. He never knowingly admitted to self-doubt and although there must have been times, especially against the mighty West Indies, when even...

Gerry Sobers is the brother of Gary Sobers. The presence of G. Sobers among the leading run-getters in the North Staffordshire League last season might well have puzzled the admirers of the great West Indies all-rounder. Many varied and...

Dilip Sardesai was a right-hand middle-order batsman and occasional right-arm slow bowler who played first-class cricket in Bombay and India. Former Indian Test batsman Dilip Sardesai played 30 Tests between 1961 and 1972, scoring 2001 runs, including five centuries,...