30 Aug 1948. Martin Donnelly bowled off a ball that pitched behind the stumps
Read MoreCricket Divorce: The Row of the Rowleys
The unsuccessful dance down the wicket. A woman named Mildred Rowley was granted divorce because her husband was cricket-mad.
Read MoreThe Leg Over incident
The Leg Over fiasco took place on 9 August 1991
Read MoreSome facts about the young Garry Sobers
Five facts about the young Garry Sobers
Read MoreGeorge Best ends up in the wrong Old Trafford
12 July 1961. George Best ended up in the wrong Old Trafford
Read MoreVegetarian dismissal : caught Beet bowled Root
12 July 1913. The only time c Beet b Root appeared on the scoreboard of a First-Class match. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the game in which the Beet-Root combination struck for the first and only time for Derbyshire.
Read MoreOne bowler against all of them
June 29, 1818. MCC played the Gentlemen of England with some stretched rules. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the game in which only one bowler was employed by the Gentlemen across two innings, and voices a suspicion that cannot be ignored.
Read MoreCec Pepper cons Warwickshire bowlers
29 June 1964. Officiating in the Glamorgan-Warwickshire match was the colourful former Australian cricketer Cec Pepper. And his umpiring, apparently flawless, had some undercurrents of deception. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the hilarious incident.
Read MoreJack Hobbs stops time
Jack Hobbs almost stopped time on 25 May 1914
Read MoreFirst-class debut at 72: Raja Maharaj Singh
In a match between the Commonwealth XI and Bombay Governor’s XI on November 25, 1950, Raja Maharaj Singh, a venerable man in his seventies made his debut in First-Class cricket. Arunabha Sengupta recounts the curious tale of the oldest First-Class cricketer in the history of the game.
Read MoreHang Holt save Hylton
17 May 1955. The day of Hylton, Holt and Hanging
Read MoreBaden-Powell 200 Days Not Out
Robert Baden-Powell and the invitation he received for a cricket match
Read MoreKapil Dev: A personal experience of his all-round genius
Kapil Dev, born January 6, 1959, was perhaps the greatest all-round cricketer to be produced by India. Arunabha Sengupta writes about a personal experience of the man’s genius.
Read MoreSubhash Gupte and Vinoo Mankad: Tied together in a web of spin
Vinoo Mankad and Subhash Gupte. Great men who bowled in tandem
Read MoreWG Grace caught by a gentleman's midsection
During the first ever tour undertaken by WG Grace, to Canada and North America in 1872, he fell to a curious dismissal in his first major innings on August 22. Arunabha Sengupta relates the incident.
Read MoreWG Grace: Some immortal anecdotes
WG Grace, born July 18, 1848, was the father of cricket, and has more anecdotes concocted around him than perhaps any other personality in the game. Many are apocryphal; some still have pretensions of truth. Arunabha Sengupta lists 30 of the most colourful.
Read MoreDavid Frith: 19 for 90 equals love
David Frith: Who can resist a man who pens a love letter detailing Jim Laker’s 19 for 90?
Read MoreCricket meets Lord of the Rings
Feb 16, 2002. As England and New Zealand engaged in a rather insipid ODI, Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, got the spectators to make the noises later used in battle scenes.
Read MoreShahid Afridi chomps down on the ball
On January 31, 2010, Shahid Afridi added a new dimension to the dark art of ball-tampering by sinking his teeth into the white Kookaburra. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the bizarre day that saw the acting captain of Pakistan banned for two Twenty20 Internationals.
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