Ajit Wadekar recalls how India turned the tables on the the West Indies and won a historic victory. IMAGE: The legendary Ajit Wadekar. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images Ajit Laxman Wadekar --......
The Pravasi Bharatiya fete is fast turning out to be an exclusive Bharatiya Janata Party affair. It's still a mystery if the Congress has kept out or is being kept out of the three-day NRI-PIO......
Former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Basdeo Panday will lead the country's delegation to the second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, which will open in New Delhi on Friday.Panday will address the......
A young woman, an American citizen, but who was of Indian descent, perished along with six other astronauts even as the spaceship Columbia was trying to re-enter the atmosphere of the earth. It is......
From Rohan Kanhai the swashbuckler to Alvin Kallicharan to Shivnarine Chanderpaul to Ramnaresh Sarwan to Sunil Narine, Indian origin cricketers from the Caribbean have often been the toast of the......
To watch Dada standing on the steps of the airplane ladder with a glittering trophy in hand was exhilarating, recalls Hemant Kenkre. IMAGE: Sunil Gavaskar bats during the second Test against......
It was this day, March 6, in 1971 that Sunil Manohar Gavaskar made his debut in Test cricket. Gavaskar -- the first cricketer in history to surpass the 10,000 runs mark in the longest format -- was......
When he ended his Test career, he held the following Test records: Most Tests (125). Most consecutive Tests (106). Most runs (10,122). Most hundreds (34). Most scores of 50 or more (79). Most......
It was on June 21, 1975, when West Indies won the first edition of the Cricket World Cup. The Clive Lloyd-side defeated Australia to lift the trophy. Australia had won the toss and opted to bowl......