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rRs.r1.9 crore investment, rRs.r16.8 crore return: How an IPL 2009 investment delivered nearly nine times the payoff

India, Sept. 16 -- There are IPL seasons remembered through mountains of runs, 25-wicket campaigns and awards collected at the end of a tournament. This was not one of them. The numbers beside one Raj... Read More


Sanju Samson's margin for failure shrinks as 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi waits impatiently outside India's XI

India, Sept. 14 -- Sanju Samson had already found two boundaries, and India were hardly under pressure. Chasing 157 against Afghanistan in Delhi, there was time for the opener to settle into an inning... Read More


55* on India debut, cap received from MS Dhoni, played under Shane Warne; dramatic disappearance after one ODI

India, Sept. 14 -- There was a point in Indian cricket when Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik and a young left-handed opener from Nagpur were travelling through the same age-group system, sharing dressing ... Read More


Sehwag smashed 146, Dilshan replied with 160: The forgotten 825-run ODI thriller that was decided on the last ball

India, Sept. 13 -- Some matches become immortal almost immediately. Australia's 434 and South Africa's 438 at Johannesburg in 2006 remains one of ODI cricket's defining games, recalled every time a te... Read More


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