Sunil Gavaskar

Perhaps numbers do never reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it fairly well

It is a measure of the hold it has on the sporting psyche of the people of Melbourne that yesterday's 150th anniversary of the Melbourne Cricket Ground evoked so many personal memories of Test cricket's first venue

1939 The birth of a dear old thing

The one-day break in the Challenger Series was well-spent by the Indian cricketers, who participated in an auction for charity in Bangalore

1947 Playing for Middlesex at Lord's, Denis Compton took yet another century off the touring South Africans in his golden summer

All Today's Yesterdays - August 20 down the years August 19 | August 21 1930 Australia were eventually all out for 695 in the deciding Test at The Oval

Sunil Gavaskar renewed his verbal rivalry with Dennis Lillee, blaming him for an infamous walkout during the 1981 Melbourne Test "It was triggered by personal abuse on Lillee's part," said Gavaskar

Jack Mollinson Noreiga, who has died in Trinidad, had a brief but successful fling with Test cricket early in 1971

Sunil Gavaskar's speech at the Colin Cowdrey memorial lecture raised the issue of sledging in international cricket, but Sourav Ganguly has played down its importance, calling it a "part of modern-day cricket"

Dennis Lillee has reacted sharply to Sunil Gavaskar's criticism of Australia's sledging tactics, saying that sledging would never leave the game completely

Poor Fred Goodall - they had to pick him up off the floor in the Wellington Public Library the other day

This is the text of the Colin Cowdrey lecture delivered by Sunil Gavaskar at the MCC recently

Steve Waugh admitted that he had his sights set on Sunil Gavaskar's Test record tally of 34 centuries but said that even if he did wrest the top position for himself, it would be for a short time only

Sunil Gavaskar has been asked to raise a side to participate in a tournament celebrating the centenary of the Karachi City Cricket Association in January next year - and organisers are confident not only that he will agree to their request, but that

1949 In Bombay, one of the greatest openers of all time is born

Close to 30 coaches from around India gathered in Chennai for the MRF Coaches Seminar, where there was a chance to pick an unusual list of cricketers

There will always be great debate about the best Indian XI of all time, but there is no doubt about who is the best Indian player of all time

Proceedings on the second day of the 72nd Annual General Meeting of the Board of Cricket for Control in India (BCCI), here in Chennai on Sunday, were conducted on a harmonious note

Inaugurating the Board of Control for Cricket in India's two-day 13th all India Umpires' seminar in Mumbai, Gavaskar said players should learn to respect the decisions of umpires so that the game can go on smoothly as cricket is considered to be a