March 15, 1877. A team of English professional cricketers faced a combined eleven comprising of Victoria and New South Wales cricketers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It has gone down as the first ever Test match. Arunabha Sengupta relates the story of the birth of Test cricket.
March 15 2013, 10:01 pm
Read MoreDuring a typical rain-sodden English summer season in 2002, James Anderson lit up the Old Trafford Stadium with a sharp in-swinger to trap Surrey’s run machine Mark Ramprakash dead in front. In his first county game itself against Surrey, the shy lad from Burnley left Lancashire’s cricket cognoscenti spellbound with an awesome spell of swing bowling.
March 22 2013, 10:39 am
Read MoreOn February 7, 1981, Gundappa Viswanath scored a magnificent hundred to help India square a series against all odds. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at yet another match-winning performance by India’s "Other Little Master."
February 9 2013, 4:04 pm
Read MoreSri Lanka vice-captain Angelo Mathews is buoyed by his side's past form in limited-overs cricket at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) ahead of their first ODI against Australia.
January 8 2013, 5:15 pm
Read MoreOn February 11, 1981, India did the improbable by defending 143 against a strong Australian line-up in their own backyard. Kapil Dev’s fifer bowled Australia out for 83 – a result which helped India draw the series 1-1. Chetan Chauhan, the opening batsman of that Indian team and Syed Kirmani, the wicket-keeper, go down memory lane with CricketCountry’s Nishad Pai Vaidya.
February 11 2013, 4:38 pm
Read MoreAustralia battered and humiliated Sri Lanka by an innings and 201 runs to win the series in the second Melbourne Test midway through the third day on Friday.
December 28 2012, 11:30 am
Read MoreOn February 15, 1932 South Africa were bowled out for 45, following their 36 in the first innings. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at a Test that got over in 5 hours and 53 minutes – the shortest in the history of Test cricket.
February 15 2013, 12:15 pm
Read MoreWest Indies head coach Ottis Gibson has praised big hitting batsman Kieron Pollard for demonstrating composure to score a century in the fourth One-Day International against Australia.
February 13 2013, 3:43 pm
Read MoreWest Indies won the toss and elected to field against Australia in the fifth ODI at Melbourne on Sunday.
February 10 2013, 9:01 am
Read MorePolice arrested 22 spectators from the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) during the first day’s play of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Sri Lanka.
December 26 2012, 3:53 pm
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