In 1983 World Cup, when Kapil Dev came to bat against Zimbabwe in the second round of the preliminary league matches, India was tottering at 7 runs for 4 wickets. He went on to score a scintillating 175 not out, but it could not be recorded due to a flash strike by the BBC. India badly…
Bishen Singh Bedi became the first captain in November 1978 to concede a One Day International cricket match against Pakistan at Sahiwal. India, with eight wickets in hand, required only 23 runs from 14 balls to win the match. Sarfraz Nawaz bowled four consecutive bouncers and not one was called wide by the Pakistani umpires….
B. S. Chandrasekhar, the match-winning leg spinner of India who among other accolades, was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1972 and won Wisden’s Best Bowling Performance of the Century award in 2002 (for his figures of six wickets for 38 runs against England in the Oval Test, 1971) had a polio in…
The winners of US open during 1974-1984 (eleven years) were all left-handed. The winners were the following: Jimmy Connors (USA) – 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983 Manuel Orantes (Spain) – 1975 Guillermo Vilas (Argentina) – 1977 John McEnroe (USA) – 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984 Right-handed John Newcombe was the champion in 1973 and Ivan Lendl…
Two members of the Cricket World Cup 1983 winning team had acted in the film, Kabhi Ajnabi The, Sandip Patil as the hero and Syed Kirmani as the villain.
‘Handling the ball’ and ‘obstructing the field’ are two bizarre and extremely uncommon ways of getting out. Mohinder Amarnath is the only batsman in the world to have been dismissed in both the fashions in one-day internationals. Handling the Ball – 1986 Triseries (India-Australia-New Zealand) second match of best of three finals against Australia. Obstructing…
