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When Sachin went to meet Don Bradman along with Shane Warne, he told him that his batting reminded him of himself, and his wife concurred. Viv Richards spoke for 45 minutes and dissuaded Sachin from retiring when he had a miserable…

On the eve of the last day of the Port of Spain test against the mighty West Indies in 1971, Salim Durani told Ajit Wadekar, the captain that he will take the wicket of Garfield Sobers, the greatest all-rounder of all time and captain of…

When Richie Benaud, the most admired commentator, captain and leg spinner, joined the rebelWorld Series Cricket series in 1978, no one could call him a mercenary. But the orthodox cricketestablishment was fitfully flummoxed. When asked for…

As Roger bid farewell at London’s O2 Arena on Friday evening, footage of him as a ball boy has gone viral. ‘I guess I am a ball boy because at heart I am going to be a ball boy. Between 1993-95, I saw the best players first-hand, how they…

The Indo-Pak cricket matches are far more intense than the Ashes rivalry, as the two nations were carved out in 1947 on the palimpsest of religious identity, jingoism, and political chicanery. A million died in the bloody partition and…

As India celebrates its 75th year of independence, it coincides fortuitously with 75 years in test cricket after independence. The Indian team under Lala Amarnath played a five-test match series in Australia in 1947-48 and was pulverized…

In a ridiculously talented Australian team of the 2000s, Andrew Symonds was a standout all- rounder. He was a mercurial but impactful cricketer for Australia whose performances always changed the course of the game, like they did in…

Kerry Packer, the tycoon who engineered the rebel series in 1977 in Australia, with the tagline “Big Boys Play at Night’ once told Shane Warne: ‘Sell the blue Ferrari, son, lie low for a while’. Shane writes in his autobiography 'No…

Naseer Hussain was apt in observing that this Indian side will not be bullied by England or Australia. Though Gavaskar felt slighted ,the fact of the matter is , Saurav started it at Headingley ,by taking off his shirt,and Kohli took it a…

After the drubbing India received from the Australians in the Adelaide test (36 all-out), Kohli’s departure back home and Mohammed Shami’s injury, the stand-by captain Ajinkya Rahane could not have been wearier when India took guard in the…