Bishan-Portrait of a Cricketer : By Suresh Menon, Penguin India, 236 pages, ₹ 299. Bishan Singh Bedi took 266 Test wickets. One of them remains etched in my memory, because it illustrates how spin ...

Sydney, Aug 3 (IANS) Former Australia cricketer Ian Chappell believes captains were partly to blame for the lack of leg-spin options in the current Test team, saying skippers are yet to understand how ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It seemed an art confined to the history pages, alongside the name of one of its legendary exponents, Leslie "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith.

Of all the arts of bowling, the most difficult — and therefore the rarest and by extension, the most exciting — has to be left-arm wrist spin, also known as the ‘chinaman’. That India, a country ...

Even before India left for the tour of South Africa, the contest was billed as the face-off between the Indian batsmen and the host’s pace battery. With bowler-friendly conditions expected for the ...

PETALING JAYA: Sarawakian bowler Chong Jun Foo never thought he would return to the alley after a serious wrist injury he suffered in 2013. Fast forward 11 years later, he is now in the reckoning for ...