Bikash Mohapatra catches with former English captain Ted Dexter on his visit to Kolkata. A chat with Rediff.com about his career, his memories of India, the England team and, of course, Sachin Tendulkar.
Ted Dexter scored 4,502 runs at an average of 47.89 during his Test career and took 66 wickets at an average of 34.93.
'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.'
'Vinoo Mankad's legacy has been to tell the aspiring Indian cricketer to believe in oneself. He was a great proponent of self-belief. He was the one who kept saying to me that you need to keep scoring runs and keep at it. When you get a 100, let that be the knock on the selector's door.'
K N Prabhu, the doyen of cricket writers, salutes Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, who appeared for the first time in Test cricket 50 years ago today, March 6, 1971.
All-rounder Ben Stokes lived a charmed life to register his fourth century as England punished a sloppy India to post a huge first innings total on the second day of the opening Test in Rajkot, on Thursday.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the numbers from the first Test in Rajkot.