Tag: indian cricket
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Golden Moments of Indian Cricket
English people brought Cricket in India in the 18th-century and it got opportunity to play its first Test match in 1932 at Lord’s. India was the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status. In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196…
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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi :: Tiger of Indian Cricket
One of the greatest Indian captains, a smart, dashing and debonair cricketer, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passed away on Thursday. He was suffering from an acute lung infection. The infection was caused by chronic interstitial lung disease which prevented his lungs from exchanging oxygen properly. He was the ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi and…