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2 hours ago · As his former captain Ajit Wadekar asked later, “who plays the straight-drive better?” Impressive comeback: In a mere 94 balls and 180 frenetic minutes, Sunil Gavaskar had turned the clock back. Just as he was being written off, he staged a comeback with a ferocity that ‘ surprised even his fondest supporters.
Jun 23, 2024 · Ajit Wadekar’s Indians had responded to England’s first innings total of 629, by scoring 302. A good number of those runs—131—came from openers Sunil Gavaskar (49) and Farokh Engineer...
1 hour ago · The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday appointed former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir as new head coach. He succeeds Rahul Dravid, whose three-year stint as the head coach of the Indian men's team concluded with India's victorious campaign in the T20 World Cup in June. Dravid had taken over the reins of the Indian cricket ...
Jun 24, 2024 · The Indian cricket team, led by Ajit Wadekar, returned home after a disastrous tour of England in 1974. This tour included the infamous “Summer of 42” second Test match at Lord’s, where India was...
Jun 13, 2024 · Ditto Ajit Wadekar. Ultimately, Wadekar triumphed. Another leading MCA official to pass away while in office was Vilasrao Deshmukh who was president for 13 months after defeating Dilip Vengsarkar...
16 hours ago · Under Wadekar's captaincy, India registered its first Test series win in the West Indies and England. India played its first men's ODI in 1974, also under his captaincy. [138] India won its first men's ODI under the captaincy of Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan in the 1975 Cricket World Cup , against East Africa .
4 days ago · At no point did the BCCI anticipate that 15,000 fans would assemble at Santacruz airport to catch a glimpse of Ajit Wadekar’s warriors, clearly a first in the history of Indian cricket.
