How to use tea bag: Polly asked Bedi

A burly six-footer "Palm-Tree Hitter" who faced the likes of Fred Trueman, Wes Hall, Roy Gilchrist and Charlie Griffith with aplomb, Polly Umrigar was a completely different person off the field,......

'I was in the best team that never played for India'

Michael Dalvi, who played first class cricket for Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Bengal, once hit a century against a fiery Malcolm Marshall and the West Indies.At 77, he has a razor sharp memory, a ready......

Hughes's death sad and unfortunate, says Contractor

Former India captain Nari Contractor, who survived a near-fatal skull injury after being hit by a fast delivery in the West Indies five decades ago, described the demise of Australian cricketer......

Hughes's death hard to digest for India's survivor

Sean Abbott cradles Phillip Hughes's head after after the left-hander was struck in the head by an Abbott delivery. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images More than five decades after his......

There Will Surely Never Be Another Bishan Singh Bedi

One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......