Topic: Test cricket
On Rahul Dravid’s 46th birthday, 4 memorable innings from ‘The Wall’
In his 164-match Test career, Dravid performed the anchor’s role for the Indian middle order, scoring 13,288 runs at an average of 52.31.
Remembering Vijay Hazare, one of India’s first great batsmen & first successful captain
Vijay Hazare was famous for making twin centuries against Don Bradman’s ‘Invincibles’ in Adelaide, and also for getting The Don clean-bowled twice.
Cheteshwar Pujara: The portrait of a Test cricketer as a team man
Cheteshwar Pujara has all the time in the world, all the heart that is needed, all the humility that is required, and all the will to just bat, bat and bat.
Remembering Ranjitsinhji, the first Indian who played Test cricket for England
Ranji also served as a colonel in the British Army in World War I, and later was the Maharaja of Nawanagar princely state in what is now Gujarat.
Ravi Shastri’s free to believe this Indian team is best. But he can’t change the facts
His comment on past Indian teams is utter fiction — the hard facts are Virat Kohli’s Team India wins handsomely at home and loses aggressively away.
Cricket has a billion fans the world over, reveals ICC’s global market research
87% of the survey respondents said the Olympics should feature the T20 format of the sport.
Cricket races to save itself from years of declining popularity
The challenge for cricket – How to make a deeply complicated game palatable to a new audience, at a time of increasing competition from e-sports and video games?
One in three people at Congress rallies may not have voted for the party: Lokniti-CSDS
Survey data from BJP and Congress rallies during 2019 election suggest that huge crowds are deceiving and don’t translate into votes in favour.
Does Congress have a future in India after 2019 Lok Sabha election results?
The Congress party faced a crushing defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections at the hands of Narendra Modi-led BJP.
Defence
IAF workhorse AN-32 gets a fuel that’s green and creates jobs for tribals
The IAF will now run its AN-32 transport aircraft on a blended bio-fuel partly derived from trees. It plans to widen the experiment over the next two years.
The Mandal-Mandir era is over, make way for Modi
BJP's Mandir politics has subsumed Mandal under Modi-Shah and created a pan-Hindu vote. Modi's challenger has to invent a new politics.