SP Kalantri
SP Kalantri
I vividly remember ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ต๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ธ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ตโ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ง๐ฒ๐๐ match in 1981 against England in Mumbai. We saw the most unusual runout in a test match that day. Srikkanth ran himself out by performing an unexpected and nonchalant act. The ball was still in play when he casually strolled outside the crease, unaware of the consequences. John …
Australia could certainly benefit from emulating Courtney Walsh. In the 1987 World Cup, he had the opportunity to run out the Pakistan non-striker on the last ball. By doing so, he could’ve won the match for his team- the West Indies. He didn’t. He chose integrity over victoryโa remarkable act of sportsman spirit. West Indies …
Clive Lloyd, Andy Roberts, Viv Richards and Michael Holding In the eighties, the West Indies was the emperor, the ultimate king In 1983, the slender David faced the mighty Goliath And West Indies lost, thanks to Mohinder Amarnath 1987 arrived, with Haynes, Best, and Carl Hooper’s flair, Yet the team’s decline began, sinking deeper in …
In the winter of 1969, I was only a teenager, aged 13, and had just transferred from Craddock High School to Swavalambi Vidyalaya, Wardha. Television sets were as rare as a hat-trick in cricket back then, so my knowledge of cricket was limited to radio broadcasts and newspapers. However, I was a huge cricket fan, …
Bevan Congdon died today. I remember his two towering sixes in the 1969 Nagpur test (India vs. New Zealand) โ incidentally, the first cricket match that I saw live at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur. A connoisseur’s dream, he scored match-winning sixty-plus in the first inning and had no problems reading the variations in …
Vidarbha did it! What a victory! This day reminds me of Kapil Dev lifting the 1983 World cup in England: the Vidarbha team was as much an underdog as the Indian team was in 1983. Thirty-five years ago, a bunch of Indian players took over the mighty West Indian team and made history by defeating …
Rajneesh Gurbani seems to be in sublime form! This morning, he scythed through Delhi’s middle and tail for a hat-trick against Delhiโ no mean achievement in a Ranji Trophy finalโ and went on to claim four wickets in just six balls. He bowled intelligently today: neither Mishra, nor Saini, nor Shorey could read his incredible …
What an exciting victory! Vidarbha in Ranji Trophy final! Absolutely unbelievable! Vidarbha cricket’s finest hour! The teams were so closely matched and the result so incredibly close! The way Vidarbha held its nerves in what turned out to be a nail biting finish and snatched victory from the tightening jaws of defeat makes me very …
If West Indies could defeat England on Tuesday, how could Bangladesh on Wednesday be far behind? The two test matches (England vs. West Indies at Headingley and Bangladesh vs. Australia at Mirpur) would go down in history for generating exciting and thrilling cricket. The countries that won these tests were rated as underdogs! Indeed these …
How long do the records in International Cricket last? And how quickly do they tumble? Today, at Auckland, Martin Guptill’s 19-ball record for fastest New Zealand fifty lasted barely for 20 minutes. He got out in the seventh over; in came Colin Munro, and he began to treat Sri Lankan bowlers with a ferocity that …