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outlookindia.com 2021-01-28T11:30:55+05:30 Swinging By Adelaide Oval At this time of the year, early mornings in Manchester are not a great time to wake up and watch sport. Certainly not for someone who is going to be 83 in February. But then, India was to play a Test after almost 10 months and that too in Australia. I have happy memories of Adelaide. I can’t remember failing at this picturesque venue. It was December 1967 and the first of a four-Test series. The dates (December 23-28) included Boxing Day and remember, we had rest days then! Bobby Simpson won the toss and elected to...

Nearly a decade later, Bishan Singh Bedi's side came even closer against Bobby Simpson's Australia. The home team had lost its key players to Kerry Packer but was still a handful with speed gun Jeff Thomson, Gary Cosier and Peter Toohey in their ranks. "It was a seaming track suited to the pacers," remembers Madan Lal, who took 5/72 wickets in the second innings. This was a rare Test in the Seventies where the pacers -- Madan Lal and Mohinder Amarnath took more wickets (10) than the spin trio of Bedi, Chandra and Prasanna (9). India pursued 340 in the fourth innings. Sunil Gavaskar (113) led...

Famous ‘tied Test’ celebrated by CWI, CA Article by December 10, 2020 Cricket West Indies and Cricket Australia marked the 60th anniversary of the now famous “Tied Test” at the Gabba with an international video conference featuring Alan Davidson, Neil Harvey, Lance Gibbs and Peter Lashley, all of whom played a role in one of the most celebrated matches in history. Ricky Skerritt, the CWI president, said matches between the two cricket nations had always been keenly contested and the mutual respect and rivalry was alive today in the pursuit for the Sir Frank Worrell...

it has been 10 years since the release of the years of lyndon johnson. in a few weeks, the fourth volume will be published. it follows "1982 the path to power." an update on how volume for was taking shape. >> this is a book not just about lyndon johnson but about jack kennedy and the interplay of their personalities. it is a very complicated story that i do not think people know. two complicated people. robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. i had to really go into that to try to explain it. it is part of the story all the way through johnson's presidency. that is done, chronologically,...