Lala Amarnath

The historically minded will love it if the captains of the first Indo-Pak contests were to be honoured so, but what about younger, more modern fans?

India's selectors during the 1958-59 series against West Indies spent more time on political infighting than addressing the team's problems

A veteran cricket writer looks back a couple of India's earliest visits to England, featuring an incompetent prince-captain, a colossal allrounder, and more

A Lahore urchin, Lala Amarnath grew to walk with princes, but never lost sight of his roots

A maharajah, a firebrand allrounder, a furore. The controversy that overshadowed India's 1936 tour of England

Partab Ramchand on India's 1946 tour of England

Partab Ramchand on the 1936 India tour of England

Jenny Thompson looks back to India's first Test against England at the Bombay Gmykhana in 1933

Lala Amarnath is the most legendary of figures in Indian cricket

Rahul Bhattacharya looks back at five decades of India-Pakistan cricket - a saga in three parts

Rahul Bhattacharya looks back at five decades of India-Pakistan cricket - a saga in three parts

1911 One of the great figures in world cricket was born

Compared to literature on cricketers from other lands, books on Indian cricketers are very few and this is a pity

Multan is one of the big cities of Pakistan in respect of its population, industrial development, political and socio-cultural activities

Death brings out the tributes, full of flowery phrases

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Two sad moments in cricket, one sadder than the other

Member of the Indian Selection Committee for two years in 1953-54 and 1954-55

Since I had known Lala Amarnath for more than 50 years, I was shocked to know about his sad demise