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Congdon played 61 Tests, scoring 3,448 runs at an average of 32.22, and 11 ODIs for New Zealand.
Laker published his first autobiography, Over to Me, immediately after announcing his retirement once the tour was over. Few autobiographies are as colourfully direct.
The story of calm heads and Whiteheads started with India’s Australia tour of 1980-81 before culminating in a climax in 1982.
The main challenge of the Englishmen was to fight for the crowds, the turnstiles, as Kerry Packer’s Big Boys played at night. Yet, during that
As India gear up to take on South Africa in the ODIs, Arunabha Sengupta looks back at 10 of the best innings seen between the
Clive van Ryneveld, born March 19, 1928, was one of the greatest all-round sportsmen produced by South Africa.
In Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, India have two pace bowlers with sub-30 averages and two spinners with sub-26 averages. This
It took them 16 years and 12 Test matches, but South Africa finally achieved their first ever Test victory, that looked destined to go down
A side-splitting incident from the Australian tour of South Africa 1949-50.
Sachin Tendulkar arrived in Sydney with 82 runs from 5 innings. He had a plan to come out of the slump and did so in
Percy Fender wrote some of the finest cricket tour books. He also described innovations far ahead of his times.
Hugh Bartlett made ‘the cardinal error’ of showing interest in the same girl as his skipper Wally Hammond.
Incited by bumpers at the body bowled by Gilbert Jessop, Ernie Jones supposedly retaliated and bowled near Bodyline at Cambridge University batsmen.
When the early Ashes sides used to leave the St Pancras Station on the boat train to Dover, there used to be crowd spilling out
Steve Waugh called Merv Hughes his favourite animal. There was a reason for that.
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