The game of cricket is too good to be spoilt and it is actually time to weed out some "bad" players from the sport, says Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar whose team is aiming to file the charge sheet in the IPL spot-fixing scandal before he hangs his boots end of next month.
June 9 2013, 4:36 pm
Read MoreOn February 9, 1904 Victoria plummeted to a surreal collapse against Pelham Warner’s visiting MCC side. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at the lowest score in a First-Class match on Australian soil.
February 9 2013, 1:15 pm
Read MoreWould Padmakar Shivalkar be considered among the best left-arm spinners of his day? Wouldn’t it make sense to rank Vince van der Bijl ahead of Rodney Hogg as a fast bowler, although the former never played Test cricket? Arunabha Senguptalists 20 cricketers who were the best of their day, but never got to play at the highest level.
June 13 2013, 10:36 pm
Read MoreOn June 11, 1927, 28 days after an experiment by BBC featuring Reverend Frank Gillingham, Pelham Warner made the first ball-by-ball radio broadcast from Lord's on the first day of the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire, perched next to the clock at the Nursery End. Since then, several relentless voices bringing us ball by ball updates have gone on to become much loved household names.
November 19 2012, 5:22 pm
Read MoreOn May 22, 1907 Albert Trott became the first bowler to take two hat-tricks in a single First-Class innings. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at one of the rarest feats in the history of the sport.
May 22 2013, 3:59 pm
Read More112 years ago, a ball delivered with the standard action of a leg-spinner broke the other way and left the batsman stranded and stumped in the middle of the pitch. Arunabha Sengupta recalls how BJT Bosanquet created a new delivery, which went on to be known as the googly.
October 12 2012, 1:50 am
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 MoreIn the recently-concluded thriller at Hobart, David Warner took Australia on the verge of victory, but the rest of the line-up caved in to lose by seven runs. However, the young man did enter a select club of batsmen who have carried their bat in Test match cricket.
November 5 2012, 5:01 pm
Read MoreMarch 26, 1916. The birth of Bill Edrich, one of the pillars of English batting during the difficult phase immediately after the Second World War. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the life and career of the Middlesex batsman who formed a supreme batting partnership with Denis Compton.
March 26 2013, 9:33 am
Read MoreOn May 14, 1927, a Reverend was called away from his church pulpit and asked to broadcast cricket live on BBC. Arunabha Sengupta recounts the birth of ball-by-ball cricket commentary in England.
October 12 2012, 1:20 am
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