13 June 1938. McCabe miracle at Trent Bridge
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Amar Singh bowling in Blackpool against the Australians. Note the leg-trap. Photo courtesy: Barry Valentine
Ashes 1938: The day Amar Singh shot the Australians out at Blackpool
August 31, 1938. A landmark day in the history of Indian cricket which no one remembers. The champion all-rounder Amar Singh was drafted from Lancashire League cricket to take on the might of the visiting Australians in a First-Class game and brought the visitors down on their knees. Arunabha Sengupta remembers the fantastic feat of fast bowling that is never recounted in the pages of history of Indian cricket.
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Mayukh Ghosh recalls the drama around the wives of the Australian cricketers in 1938.
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Mayukh Ghosh looks at some of the names that became famous for dismissing Don Bradman
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Alfred Hitchcock, arguably the first great name in the genre of suspense and thrillers, was born August 13, 1899. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at his exaltation at realising that the events of a Hitchcock movie had coincided exactly with an Ashes Test.
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