05/10/2019
Vijay Merchant, fountainhead of the Bombay tradition of great batsmen - Cricket In Depth
Significantly, Merchant is second behind Bradman in the all-time first-class career averages, his 13,248 runs having come at 71.22 per innings. Headley’s first-class average was 69.86, having scored 9921 runs. Overseas, Merchant averaged 62, Headley 60.
19/09/2019
Cricketers who have excelled at other sports - Cricket In Depth
There have been several more cricketers in the past who have played another sport too at the highest international level.
19/09/2019
Kohli leads from the front in another run chase - Cricket In Depth
Unperturbed Virat Kohli reached yet another half century as he got past Rohit Sharma’s record of 21 fifties. At this stage, India required 30 runs in 4 overs. But a couple of majestic sixes from Kohli made the run chase way too easy.
17/09/2019
George Headley, the ‘Black Bradman’
While Bradman was making waves in Australia, George Headley burst on the scene on the other side of the world, in Jamaica.
10/09/2019
Smith grinds England into submission as Australia retain the Ashes - Cricket In Depth
Last Ashes Test is going to be held in Oval, England may have lost the urn but they still can square the series and get points for Test championship.
10/09/2019
Bangladesh face humiliation as Rashid scripts victory for Afghans - Cricket In Depth
The skipper, Rashid Khan became the youngest captain in test cricket history to win a maiden test at the age of 20 years and 354 days.
26/08/2019
Bradman's birth anniversary - Cricket In Depth
Don Bradman, the greatest batsman ever Homage to The Don on his 111th birth anniversary’. Len Hutton himself wrote at length about Bradman. He described his wide-eyed admiration when as a boy he saw The Don score his triple century …
21/08/2019
Bill Ponsford’s insatiable appetite for monumental scores - Cricket In Depth
Ponsford was the only player to score two quadruple centuries until Lara scored 501* for Warwickshire in 1994, and 400* in Antigua against England in 2004.
20/08/2019
Jofra's belligerence, Smith's fortitude make-up for a drawn game at Lord's - Cricket In Depth
Leach and Archer kept striking, leaving Australia in tatters. Travis Head on the other end held his nerve once again, enduring the blows from Archer.
13/08/2019
World Test Championship two years too short - Cricket In Depth
Test cricket will not just disappear. It is our heritage, a way of life. More books have been written on Test cricket, than on all other sports combined.
13/08/2019
Virat Kohli’s special on Gayle’s 300th ODI - Cricket In Depth
Virat Kohli celebrated, and there were scenes of jubilation as he got to his 42nd ODI hundred. He helped India set a fighting total.
04/08/2019
Smith fights as England dominate on day three - Cricket In Depth
England got off to a cautious start as the overnight pair took a few deliveries to get their eye in. England were 7 down for 300 with a lead of 16 runs.