Arunabha Sengupta

Chief Cricket Writer & Historian

Author: Arunabha Sengupta

Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry. He writes about the history of cricket, with occasional statistical pieces and reflections on the modern game. He is also the author of four novels, the most recent being Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes. He tweets @senantix

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Bevan Congdon: A much-respected name in the annals of New Zealand cricket
Arunabha SenguptaFebruary 12, 2018 10:45 AM IST
Congdon played 61 Tests, scoring 3,448 runs at an average of 32.22, and 11 ODIs for New Zealand.
Jim Laker’s spin on the throwing issue
Arunabha SenguptaFebruary 7, 2018 9:43 PM IST
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 Whitehead Scare: The Indian side lives through a nightmare
Arunabha SenguptaFebruary 5, 2018 11:51 PM IST
The story of calm heads and Whiteheads started with India’s Australia tour of 1980-81 before culminating in a climax in 1982.
Chance Meeting: England team meets WSC cricketers
Arunabha SenguptaFebruary 2, 2018 12:44 PM IST
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
India versus South Africa: Ten best ODI knocks
Arunabha SenguptaFebruary 1, 2018 12:21 PM IST
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
Obituary: Clive van Ryneveld, one of the greatest all-round sportsmen
Arunabha SenguptaJanuary 31, 2018 11:14 AM IST
Clive van Ryneveld, born March 19, 1928, was one of the greatest all-round sportsmen produced by South Africa.
Indian bowling has never had it so good
Arunabha SenguptaJanuary 30, 2018 3:19 PM IST
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
Googly bowlers, Dave Nourse, Percy Sherwell engineer South Africa’s first ever win in a heart-stopping Test
Arunabha SenguptaJanuary 3, 2018 9:51 PM IST
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
When Lindwall ‘floored’ his critic and then South Africans
Arunabha SenguptaJanuary 3, 2018 9:50 PM IST
A side-splitting incident from the Australian tour of South Africa 1949-50.
Sachin Tendulkar's 241 at Sydney Cricket Ground — a near spiritual experience
Arunabha SenguptaJanuary 3, 2018 9:39 PM IST
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: Way ahead of his times as a cricket writer
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 24, 2017 5:45 PM IST
Percy Fender wrote some of the finest cricket tour books. He also described innovations far ahead of his times.
Hugh Bartlett and the perils of eyeing the same girl as the captain
Arunabha SenguptaDecember 11, 2017 6:11 PM IST
Hugh Bartlett made ‘the cardinal error’ of showing interest in the same girl as his skipper Wally Hammond.
Ernie Jones and his supposed brush with Bodyline
Arunabha SenguptaNovember 27, 2017 11:43 AM IST
Incited by bumpers at the body bowled by Gilbert Jessop, Ernie Jones supposedly retaliated and bowled near Bodyline at Cambridge University batsmen.
A whiff of cricket on the London Tube
Arunabha SenguptaNovember 24, 2017 5:58 PM IST
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
Hughes: Moustachioed master of sledging
Arunabha SenguptaNovember 22, 2017 9:00 PM IST
Steve Waugh called Merv Hughes his favourite animal. There was a reason for that.