March 6, 1993. Martin Crowe was at the end of his tether, battling discontent in team, injuries and ailment, and severe criticism in the press. He stormed in to answer questions in a press conference, and started off by asking several. And one of them was about as direct and bold as cricket ever gets. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the fateful day at Wellington.
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George Cecil Ives, born October 1, 1867, was a poet, writer and penal reformer … fate also made him the first ever First-Class cricketer to admit to homosexuality. Abhishek Mukherjee documents the curiously interesting character.
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