Charlie Griffith

Discussions on physics, biomechanics and aerodynamics could take the fun out of an exciting cricket match, right? Wrong. Countries like West Indies have dedicated entire laboratories to study the science behind cricket.

A metal plate, inserted 60 years ago in former India captain Nari Contractor’s head after being hit by a Charlie Griffith bouncer on the 1962 tour of the West Indies, has finally been removed through surgery.

Budhi Kunderan was one of the best 11 cricketers in the country playing against Australia. He kept wickets for 148 overs in the Test match.

A metal plate, inserted 60 years ago in former India captain Nari Contractor’s head after being hit by a Charlie Griffith bouncer on the 1962 tour of the West Indies, has finally been removed through surgery on medical advice. Contractor’s son Hoshedar told TOI that his father was fine after the surgery.

A day after they were turned away from the gates of Cama Hospital in Fort despite registering on the Cowin app for the second dose due to no stock, former India cricket captain Nariman (Nari) Contractor, 88, his visually disabled wife Dolly, 89, and son Hoshedar, 61, were finally administered the vaccines, thanks to some help from Nadeem Memon, a noted curator member of the Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) Apex Council.

Phillips Hughes' death, after being hit by Sean Abbot's bouncer, threw every household, social network and coffee table into the discussion of 'how dangerous cricket is'.

Very few know the fact that in 1886, the first-ever cricket team from India left for the shores of England, for a cricket tour. The team comprised only Parsee players from Mumbai (then Bombay).

Former India skipper Nari Contractor on Sunday returned home, much to the relief of his family, after being discharged from the hospital, where he successfully underwent a major operation to remove the titanium plate that was inserted in his skull 60 years ago following an injury during the 1961-62 tour of the West Indies.

Four decades after suffering a near-fatal skull injury, Nari Contractor will visit the Caribbean as a special invitee to witness the formation of blood banks.

Those who saw him in pomp insist he is the finest footballer India has produced since the 1960s. But Chuni Goswami, who led India to gold in the 1962 Jakarta Asian Games and who turns 80 on Monday, was also a cricketer of considerable merit who famously demolished the West Indies in the winter of 1966.

Pataudi became the youngest Indian captain at the age of 21 when he was put in charge in 1962 in Barbados after regular captain Nari Contractor was hit in the head.

Former India skipper Nari Contractor on Sunday returned home, much to the relief of his family, after being discharged from the hospital, where he successfully underwent a major operation to remove the titanium plate that was inserted in his skull 60 years ago following an injury during the

"I wish best of luck to Hughes and his family in this hour of crisis. My prayers are with him and his family. I hope he recovers completely from this," Contractor told TOI.

Ex-captain Nari Contractor never played for Mumbai. Yet, he is a Mumbai boy. Fate found something so interesting in this man that it never left him alone.

Fans still revere Malcolm Marshall's grave in a quiet corner of Bartholomew's Church in Barbados, a quarter century after his death, highlighting his legacy in West Indies cricket history.

Western Railways honoured its top sports awardees by displaying their names on a board at the Heritage Building at its headquarters in Mumbai. The list includes hockey legend Kishan Lal, former cricket captains Nari Contractor and Diana Edulji, and Dronacharya awardee Dinesh Lad, coach of Rohit Sharma and Shardul Thakur.

Former Indian Test cricketer Rusi Framroze Surti died on Sunday in a local hospital following a brief illness.

Former left-arm spinner Bapu Nadkarni said that Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was "a much misunderstood man" during his playing days because of his aloofness.

In Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi’s death, India has lost a big, big hero. Even bigger than the elephants he loved to see in India and South Africa, says G K George.

Sachin Tendulkar and former India captain Sourav Ganguly released a book on former India opener Late Pankaj Roy in the presence of the entire Indian squad.