9th Day of February
1922 Jim Laker, the Englishman who took 10 wickets in an innings for the first time ever, was born on this day. Laker had taken all ten against Australia for Surrey in a tour match. In 1956 at Old Trafford, he took 19 wickets against Australia. He took 46 wickets at 9.60 each in the five Ashes Tests of 1956. 1970 Glenn...
8th Day of February
1952 India got their first Test victory, on their 25th attempt. T came against England in Madras. The Test is marked by Vinoo Mankad’s 12 wickets. Wicket keeper Khokhan Sen made four stumpings in the innings, and five in the match. Both were records until Kiran More stumped West Indies in 1987-88. Pankaj Roy and Polly Umrigar made hundreds in...
7th Day of February
1982 Australia won the Women’s World Cup against England in Christchurch. Australia won by 3 wickets with 6 balls to spare. 1999 The day of Anil Kumble’s perfect 10. Kumble became only the second man after Jim Laker to take all ten wickets in a Test innings against Pakistan in Delhi. He gave away only 74 runs for his 10 wickets. When...
His fingers strike gold; Maria Irudayam-India’s first Carrom World Champion
A favourite pastime for many of us, Carrom is one of the few sports where India enjoys supremacy. Although its precise origin is unknown, it is widely believed that the game originated in the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Henceforth, this very original game has been carried forward by some masters who have embedded India’s name in this...
6th Day of February
1931 Frederick Trueman, regarded as the greatest fast bowler of England, was born on this day. Fred was the first man from any country to take 300 Test wickets with a fiery average of 21.57, a landmark he reached at The Oval in 1964. His debut series was against India and at Headingley Fred’s 3 for 0 in eight balls...
5th Day of February
1970 Darren Lehmann, a free-scoring left-hander batsman for Australia, was born on this day. He could have played more cricket for the national side, but due to abundance of talent in the Aussie team during his time, Darren’s career was subdued. He scored three centuries in the space of five Tests in 2003. He hit the winning runs in the...
Government released 3.14 crore rupees for TOP scheme
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore declared that the government has released Rs 3.14 crore as out of pocket allowance of 175 sportspersons under the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme in the last quarter of 2017. “The rate of Out of Pocket Allowance (OPA) from NSDF is Rs 50,000 per month and it is admissible with effect from September 2017 or...
3rd Day of February
1936 Bob Simpson, the celebrated Australian allrounder, was born on this day. Simpson was a master strokemaker, cunning leg spinner and a brilliant fielder. Gradually Simpson became a first-rated opening batsman. He posted his first hundred in 1964, much later than his debut, but converted it into a breakthrough 311. Simpson ended with 46.81 average after 62 Tests. He has...
2nd Day of February
1968 Aminul Islam, the Bangladeshi cricketer who made a century in his country's inaugural Test, was born on this day. He achieved this feat against India in Dhaka in November 2000. He made 145 and became the third person to do so, after Australia's Charles Bannerman and Zimbabwe's Dave Houghton. 1973 Sir Richard Hadlee, one of the greatest allrounders of all times,...
31st Day of January
1988 Mohammad Shahzad, wicketkeeper-batsman of Afghanistan, was born on this day. In his first 11 ODI innings, Shahzad made three hundreds and three fifties. He hit a 67-ball 118 - then the highest T20I score by an Associate batsman - against Zimbabwe in Sharjah in 2016. 1999 A classic Test match between India and Pakistan ended with Pakistan winning by 12 runs....