Mushtaq Ali

Before Sehwag, and even Srikkanth, India had a swashbuckling opening batsman who also kept wickets

Martin Williamson on the time Denis Compton was promised Rs 50 a run in the final of the Ranji Trophy ... and went on to score 249. But when it came to payment ...

Syed Mushtaq Ali has died at 90. Tributes flowed in as the news of his death spread

Mushtaq Ali's 112 v England at Manchester in 1936 was voted the 18th best Test innings by an Indian in Wisden Asia Cricket's extensive feature on the Greatest Indian innings

Mushtaq Ali reflects, in an interview with Boria Majumdar

Syed Mushtaq Ali, one of Indian's early cavaliers and the first Indian batsman to score a Test century away from home, has died in his sleep early this morning

Tributes flowed in for Vijay Hazare

In his playing days, he was a dare devil who bewildered bowlers and entertained spectators by jumping out even to pace bowlers or by hitting the fastest deliveries from outside the off stump to the mid wicket boundary

Syed Mushtaq Ali, that exhilarating Indore opener of the 30's and 40's, and one half of India's most legendary opening pair turns 85 today