Chief Cricket Writer & Historian
Gundappa Viswanath arrives.
The Fijian Petero Kubunavuna fielded barefoot in a sulu and featured on the stamp issued to commemorate the centenary of cricket in Fiji in 1974.
A look back at the collisions of fate and vessels, matches of Tug-of-War and union of hearts — and the curious cases of the extra
Peter Roebuck wrote the foreword to David Frith's By His Own Hand. He committed suicide himself 20 years later.
Twelve relatively little- known facts about the stalwart.
Apart from cricket, Rupert Brooke was also more than competent at rugby.
Lord Tennyson knew that there was bowling, and something called stumping, involved in cricket, but...
There is evidence to suggest that Elizabeth Barrett Browning played a bit of cricket at Colwall Green, under the Malvern Hills.
Bernard Hollowood had a recipe for countering the thunderbolts aimed at the body by Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.
Eton won the match against Lord Byron’s Harrow and followed it with a poem to rub it in. Byron rose to the challenge.
Was it okay for him, wondered Greg Thomas, to play against a unit that certainly did not have the approval of the establishment?
Lord Byron had a club foot. However, he did venture onto the cricket pitch in the rather prestigious Eton vs Harrow encounter of 1805.
Srikkanth received an SOS to join the Indian team in Pakistan, 1984: and then...
Bill Ashdown’s advice to Frank Woolley, however counterintuitive, was based on solid reason.
You do not summon poets for soaps, but John Snow was no ordinary man.
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