Abbas Ali Baig

In the early 1960s, Tiger and I played together at Oxford, and our friendship was cemented over the past five decades. He was always full of life. It was painful to see him in the ICU.

People like Vinoo Mankad come rarely. And when they do, they transform the lives of everyone who comes across them. They show us how much we are yet to achieve in our lives.

Sledging can be fun. As long as the right spirit and right humour is there, sledging can add up to the fun of the game. Parsi Cyclist was a team whose players were never short of a fun-foul word.

His batting and captaincy are on fire, yet he is chilled enough to blow his girlfriend a kiss from the pitch and spell his fashion label Wrogn. Both on the field and off, Virat Kohli's got game, and that's why he scores.

Richie Benaud's leg-spin wasn't designed to deceive in flight but they turned and bounce awkwardly to fetch him 52 wickets in eight Tests in India.

Former left-arm spinner Dilip Doshi on Thursday credited former captain and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly for eradicating factionalism and regionalism from Indian cricket.

On Wednesday, when skipper Virat Kohli's new young India takes on Sri Lanka in the opening Test of the three-match series, many cricket lovers might be asking: "Will it last till the weekend so that we can watch the game?"

Writer's comic alter ego was modelled on Laxman's famous creation

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) office-bearers and the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) continue to differ on key matters. This time, the issue is over the speaker of the prestigious MAK Pataudi Memorial Lecture.

Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi must be breathing easy when the big contenders for the Delhi & District Cricket Association president's chair declined to contest the executive committee elections on December 30.

Antique props have been used for the grand mughal-themed reception for Saif Ali Khan and his new bride Kareena Kapoor in a spacious government bungalow here tomorrow.

The wheel has come full circle for cricket. In the early 1960s, the shortened version of the game, One-dayers, was created to inject thrill and pace into the staid world of Test cricket.

There's always a first for everything and no wonder Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be remembered as the first among equals to sign an autograph for a crazy fan while he was out there batting for Jharkhanda.

The first thing that one notices inside the house is a long rosewood table. At least 12 people can sit at it with ease and have their dinner.

Prithvi Shaw on Thursday became the youngest Indian to score a half-century in Tests on debut. The Mumbai batsman, who became India’s 293rd Test player, achieved the feat during the first Test of the two-match series against the West Indies at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot.

BCCI vice-president Sneh Bansal is favourite to win presidential elections against former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi as they square off in the Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) contest, scheduled here tomorrow.

A renowned batsman, leader, and known for quicksilver fielding, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi is the youngest cricketer to have captained India at 21.

"Earlier I was not very clued in to cricket, but now I'm glued to every match. It's a sought of link I'd like to keep," said Sharmila Tagore, wife of India's legendary cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, fondly nicknamed Tiger Pataudi.

Kanpur Test: Back then, the opposing captains were Pakistan's Fazal Mahmood and India's Nari Contractor. The match itself was a dull draw, with overly cautious players on both sides not keen to score at a healthy rate on a surface that had some turn in it.

Hasina Nasreen Shiuli had her five minutes of fame, but the blush on Mahendra Singh Dhoni's face will have lingered far longer.

The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) would revive an old tradition and bring out a souvenir to commemorate the historical occasion of India and Bangladesh playing the first ever Test in India.

Bengal lost one of its greatest leg-spinners with the passing away of Soumendranath Kundu in the city on Thursday. He was 77. A humble, down-to-earth human being, Kundu always preferred to stay away from the limelight and seldom boasted about his achievements. No wonder he was a forgotten cricketer.

Sneh Prakash Bansal and his panel today swept the DDCA polls with a landslide victory over former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi's faction as the former India captain lost the president's election by a massive margin of 2148 votes here today.

Edulji was part of the panel last year which picked Shantha Rangaswamy as the first woman cricketer to get the award last year. It is learnt that Edulji had recused from the panel this year since her name was in contention.

For the second time since Sourav Ganguly made his second comeback in 1996, Ganguly was not played in a Test or ODI for India despite being fit.

A mind so grounded and a temperament which avoided overconfidence while never losing confidence; GS Ramchand was the ideal captain.

It is emerging that both BCCI’s acting-president CK Khanna and acting-treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry batted for Sourav Ganguly to deliver the Pataudi lecture as thei first choice ahead of Pietersen, who eventually became BCCI's choice

His death following a brain haemorrhage in Jamshedpur on Tuesday received only a passing mention in most newspapers.