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Hey, I have a bat for you!
Cricketers have rejoiced over gifts in the form of pieces of willow just like Gujarat Giants’ WPL star Kashvee Gautam did when Hardik Pandya presented her with a bat of the appropriate weight recently
17 April,2025 08:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Why we Will not forget him
Through his concussion issues-caused recent decision to call it quits from all forms of the game, Pucovski joined a list of 10 Australian cricketers who played their solitary Tests against India over the years
10 April,2025 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
An unhealthy early retirement
Plan to retire the Pataudi Trophy that India and England play for in UK-hosted Tests is nothing short of cricketing blasphemy; move will prove highly disrespectful to the late India captains IAK and MAK
03 April,2025 06:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Nice way to honour ‘Judge’
BCCI Secretary AW Kanmadikar’s recent family-organised birth centenary celebration in Indore must move the establishment and state units to honour cricketing stalwarts in this fashion
27 March,2025 07:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Initiators Sampat, Jaywant delighted as MCA grants 50 per cent raise in pension
Former first-class players below the age of 70 and are not part of the BCCI pension scheme for domestic cricketers, used to get Rs 10,000 from the MCA
24 March,2025 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
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‘Greg was always in a no-win situation with India coach job’
mid-day catches up with former Australia cricketer Trevor Chappell on his brief visit to Mumbai; talks about his brother’s controversial 2005-2007 coaching stint and of course that infamous underarm incident of 1981
20 March,2025 08:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Celebration of Test cricket
That’s what it will be when a plan to mark 150 years of the traditional form of the game with a pink-ball Test comes to fruition in March 2027; Centenary Test of 1977 is worth emulating
20 March,2025 07:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
The life and times of Abid Ali
The former India all-rounder, who passed away in California this week, put his stamp of grit and determination in whatever he undertook and dealt with his blows courageously
13 March,2025 07:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
‘If India don’t want no-balls and wides, they’ll get that too’
“At the Champions Trophy, India did not have to travel at all. How can a team not travel during a tournament,” asked Roberts, as India were working their way to their third Champions Trophy triumph on Sunday
11 March,2025 08:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Why Champions Trophy win could be sweeter
India have a chance to clinch the title in Dubai one day before the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Championship of Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where Sunil Gavaskar’s men beat Javed Miandad’s Pakistan in the final and Ravi Shastri was given an Audi car for being Champion of Champions
09 March,2025 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello