Mike Gatting named President of Marylebone Cricket Club
Former England captain Mike Gatting was on Wednesday named President of the historic Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
May 2 2013, 5:02 pm
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Former England captain Mike Gatting was on Wednesday named President of the historic Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
May 2 2013, 5:02 pm
Read MoreWhile France has fallen for the charms of football and rugby despite their Anglo-Saxon origins, the "je ne sais quoi" of cricket has never taken hold on the other side of the Channel in quite the same way.
May 4 2013, 5:25 pm
Read MoreThe International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals that requires the umpires to call 'no ball' whenever a bowler breaks the non-striker's wicket during a delivery.
April 4 2013, 8:47 pm
Read MoreFrom the altercation with Shakoor Rana, his unceremonious removal as England captain and a disgruntled rebel tour of South Africa, Mike Gatting has come a long way to be nominated as the next President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), writes Arunabha Sengupta.
May 3 2013, 6:15 pm
Read MoreDenis Compton, born May 23, 1918, was one of the greatest batsmen of England whose career might have traced even higher paths if he had not been hampered by a near-crippling knee injury. Arunabha Sengupta remembers the knight in shining armour of English cricket who brightened up the drab post-War days of the country with his breath-taking batting.
May 23 2013, 2:14 pm
Read MoreOn May 25, 1985 Allan Border completed his fourth consecutive First-Class hundred to set off an England tour. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at a captain’s valiant run despite his team’s hopeless Ashes campaign.
May 25 2013, 9:17 am
Read MoreMCC's (Marylebone Cricket Club) world cricket committee has said it would like to see Twenty20 cricket included at the 2024 Olympic Games to boost take-up of the game around the world.
February 27 2013, 9:36 pm
Read MoreFresh moves are afoot to have cricket become an Olympic sport perhaps in time for the 2024 Summer Games.
March 1 2013, 4:17 pm
Read MoreMay 22, 1919. Harold Heygate becomes the first man in history of cricket to be timed out — although the scorecards said ‘out, absent’. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the day when the Surrey batsman got dismissed while desperately strapping his pads over a blue serge suit.
May 22 2013, 4:01 pm
Read MoreNasser Hussain, born on March 28, 1968, was one of the most respected captains in world cricket — one who transformed the fortunes of the England cricket team during his tenure. Jaideep Vaidya looks back at the career of Hussain on his 45th birthday.
May 25 2013, 3:43 am
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