10120 runs, 38 centuries, 67 average: India's forgotten domestic giant was banned for life alongside Azharuddin

India, Sept. 12 -- There are domestic records that suggest a player was unlucky not to have enjoyed a longer international career. Then there are numbers so extreme that the international record besid... Read More

Only 67 Test runs, but shaped Gavaskar's mentality, managed teenage Tendulkar: Why Wankhede still remembers him

India, Sept. 12 -- When the Mumbai Cricket Association decided to name lounges at the Wankhede Stadium after Sachin Tendulkar, Ajinkya Rahane and Madhav Mantri, two of the names needed little introduc... Read More

7469 runs, 385 wickets: India's rare all-rounder whose legacy was tainted by World Cup humiliation, spat with Kapil Dev

India, Sept. 10 -- There was a time when India asked one cricketer to perform perhaps the most exhausting double act available in international cricket. He would take the new ball, spend over after ov... Read More

75 innings, 17 fifties, 0 centuries: How Sachin Tendulkar's ODI numbers changed forever after 9th September, 1994

India, Sept. 9 -- On September 9, 1994, Sachin Tendulkar finally crossed a line that had resisted him for almost five years. Against Australia at Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium, the 21-year-old made 11... Read More

Scored 101 vs Botham-Willis but Test career lasted 38 balls; his broken finger paved the way for Tendulkar's India debut

India, Sept. 9 -- Clive Lloyd was the first. Then came Viv Richards, Jeff Dujon and Malcolm Marshall. Four West Indian batsmen, four catches, all taken by the same young Indian during the Ahmedabad Te... Read More

Averaged 103 with best of 242, but India career didn't end well; arrests, human-trafficking charges later crushed legacy

India, Sept. 7 -- More than a thousand runs arrived in a single Ranji Trophy season, at an average above 100. Five centuries came with them, including a mammoth 242, as bowlers around the domestic cir... Read More

East Zone's 708 shows why a six-decade-old Indian domestic rule is increasingly out of step with modern cricket

India, Sept. 7 -- East Zone's first innings in the Duleep Trophy final ended only when South Zone took the 10th wicket. Ishan Kishan's side were bowled out for 708 in 163 overs at Chepauk, having used... Read More

Before Ishan Kishan, he scored 320 in Duleep Trophy final: The India cricketer whose life was tragically cut short at 38

India, Sept. 7 -- Ishan Kishan had already turned the Duleep Trophy final into his own stage by the time his body forced him to stop. Resuming on 111 at Chepauk on Monday, the East Zone captain crosse... Read More

Debuted with Tendulkar, bone tumour ended career at 28: Indian pacer who played one Test later fought severe depression

India, Sept. 6 -- On November 15, 1989, four young cricketers walked onto the National Stadium in Karachi to begin their Test careers. One was a 16-year-old Indian whose name would eventually become i... Read More

Erling Haaland hits 300 goals at 26, and one comparison with Messi and Ronaldo makes the achievement look even crazier

India, Sept. 6 -- Erling Haaland has spent much of his career turning extraordinary numbers into ordinary news. Another hat-trick, another scoring record, another landmark reached before most of his c... Read More

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