On June 17, 1921, the doyen of cricket writers, Neville Cardus, started the longest partnership of his life. Arunabha Sengupta relives the occasion, reflecting on the enchanting Cardus anecdote about the county match that was not really played that day and some more tales of the legend.
January 26 2013, 7:16 pm
Read MoreExactly 100 years ago, the long two and a half month tedium of the first Triangular Test Tournament drew to a hurtling end at The Oval. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the day when sixteen wickets tumbled on a rain affected pitch.
October 12 2012, 2:25 am
Read MoreExactly one century ago, Australia and South Africa met at the Old Trafford, for the first Test match played in a neutral venue as also the start of the innovatively planned Triangular Test series.
October 12 2012, 1:26 am
Read MoreA century in the first session of the opening day of a Test has been achieved only on four occasions, three of them before the Second World War. Arunabha Sengupta revisits the 1976 innings of Majid Khan, the only instance of such a feat since 1930, and discusses why it is such an unique chapter in the history of cricket.
November 5 2012, 5:02 pm
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