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

ALL FEATURES BY Arunabha Sengupta

Don Bradman’s 100th First-Class hundred
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 26, 2016 4:03 PM IST
Minutes before tea, Don Bradman stood on 99. Lala Amarnath, in a surprising manoeuvre, threw the ball to Gogumal Kishenchand. Bradman later called it a
Don Bradman: Not just the greatest cricketer
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 26, 2016 3:38 PM IST
Don Bradman as recorded by the cricket-crazy Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies.
April 25, 1709: First mention of cricket in America
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 24, 2016 10:54 PM IST
That day’s entry in the diary of William Byrd of Virginia is the first mention of the noble game in the cricket-agnostic America. Arunabha Sengupta
Alvin Kallicharran decimates a dangerous Vanburn Holder
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 24, 2016 9:02 PM IST
Alvin Kallicharran took strike to play Vanburn Holder with the score reading 32 for 2.
Bernard Tancred: Best batsman of the first South African side
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 17, 2016 1:34 PM IST
Bernard Tancred opened the innings in South Africa’s first Test.
Ashes 1909: Warwick Armstrong keeps debutant Frank Woolley waiting by bowling trial balls for 19 minutes!
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 13, 2016 10:30 PM IST
August 10, 1909. As Frank Woolley waited to face his first ball in Test cricket at The Oval, Warwick Armstrong kept bowling trial deliveries for
Nip Pellew — one of the greatest fielders of all time
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 13, 2016 10:14 PM IST
Pellew was born in 1893 and attended the St Peter College in Adelaide.
Don Bradman scores a second-ball duck in his farewell Test innings
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 13, 2016 10:05 PM IST
England were skittled out for 52 by a lethal Ray Lindwall, following which Don Bradman fell for the most infamous duck in the history of
Johnny Mullagh: Greatest Aboriginal cricketer
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 12, 2016 7:50 PM IST
Johnny Mullagh was the greatest of all Australian Aboriginal cricketers who toured England in 1868.
Geoff Boycott gets his 100th First-Class century
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 11, 2016 12:03 PM IST
Geoff Boycott: Unique in every sense.
Ashes 1938: Bradman scores 103 at Leeds to follow up scores of 334 and 304 on his earlier visits at the venue
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 9, 2016 7:57 PM IST
Don Bradman had scored 334 and 304 at Headingley on his last two visits. This time he managed just 103. But it proved to be
Iqbal Qasim: Champion left-arm spinner trumped by Abdul Qadir
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 6, 2016 2:18 PM IST
Iqbal Qasim was one of the foremost left-arm spinners of his era, whose record speaks eloquently for his quality. He played under the shadow of
India vs Sri Lanka 1st Test at Colombo, 1997: Heartbreaking for Sanath Jayasuriya, backbreaking for Indians
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 5, 2016 7:24 PM IST
Sanath Jayasuriya scored 340. Roshan Mahanama, 225. Sri Lanka finished on 952 for 6.
MV 'Bobjee' Narasimha Rao: First Indian cricketer to be awarded the MBE
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 4, 2016 5:50 PM IST
MV Narasimha Rao was a successful leg-spinning all-rounder at the domestic level.
Arthur Haygarth: Supreme complier of Scores and Biographies
Arunabha SenguptaAugust 4, 2016 7:00 AM IST
Arthur Haygarth, born August 4, 1825, was a useful cricketer himself, good enough to play for Gentlemen against Players on 16 occasions. Arunabha Sengupta documents

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