A teenager called Mithali Raj, in 2002, turned things around with a resounding double-hundred, smashing her way into the record books forever, stamping her arrival
Shoaib Akhtar was fast, very fast, probably the fastest. But there was more to him than that.
Abell, a wicketkeeper in the match, scored the double hundred for Northern India against Army in 1934-35.
William Moule's only Test was also the first one played on English soil.
Inshan Ali was a specialist Chinaman bowler. Bernard Julien was known mostly for bowling seam. And Roy Fredericks was a batsman who bowled at times.
Lindsay Kline averaged 22.82 with ball in Test cricket, doing particularly well overseas. Alas, he played only 13 Tests.
Johnny Wardle, a left-arm finger-spinner, took to bowling Chinaman and found reasonable success on Australian pitches.
Garry Sobers bowled outswing, inswing, and finger-spin. He also bowled wrist-spin...
If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion, wrote Don
Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.
Sourav Ganguly picked two spinners and opted to bat despite the gloom. The rest is history.
England scored 230 runs across innings in the Test, less than India's scores of 272 and 237. It was only the fifth time in history
Rev. AP Wickham also held the County Championship record for the biggest innings to have kept wickets too without conceding a bye.
India had drawn two and lost eight of their first 10 Tests at Lord's. This was their 11th attempt.
India had lost 15 out of their 19 Tests on English soil before the tour, drawing only rest. In fact had lost 11 of their
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