1971 India won their first Test against West Indies at the 25th attempt in Port-of Spain. Dilip Sardesai’s hundred and half-centuries by Gavaskar and Eknath Solkar gave India a first-innings lead of 138. In the second innings, Sunil Gavaskar hit the winning runs and remained unbeaten at 67. S Venkataraghavan …

Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla claimed the first gold of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in skiathlon cross country race ahead of Norway’s Marit Bjoergen who was set to win her third straight gold medal in the event. Though not a gold but with silver, Bjoergen became the most decorated woman in Winter …

At around -28 degrees centigrade with steady winds making the chill further, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, inaugurated the 23rd Winter Olympics Games at Pyeonghang in South Korea. “This is the moment that we have all been waiting for: the first Olympic Games on snow and ice …

1928 Jack Hobbs became the oldest man in Test history to score a hundred when he knocked 142 in Melbourne against Australia. He was 46 years and 82 days old. 1931 Neil Adcock, the first South African to get to 100 Test wickets, was born on this day. Adcock took …

Smriti Mandhana showed her mettle once again. She scores big when it matters and this time she slammed a quickfire 135 as Indian women’s cricket team  beat South Africa by 178 runs in the second ODI to clinch the three-match series in Kimberley. Putting India into bat, South Africa surprised …

1934 Nari Contractor, a dependable opener for India, was born on this day. Contractor made his Test debut against New Zealand in Bombay. But his bright cricket career was cut short due to a fatal injury at head from a ball of Charlie Griffith in Bridgetown in 1961-62. His skull …

1956 Peter Roebuck, perhaps the most famous cricket writers, was born on this day. He played 335 first-class matches and 298 List A matches for Somerset ut never played for England. Later he became a distinguished cricket writer. Roebuck died in 2011 when he fell to his death from a …

Indian women’s team produced a clinical all-round performance to beat South Africa by 88 runs in the first ODI at Diamond Oval in Kimberley.  Electing to bat, India started well with a fifty-run partnership between openers Punam Raut and Smriti Mandhana. Raut was dismissed for 19. But Mandhana then hit …

1921 Nazar Mohammad, Pakistan’s first Test centurion, was born on this day. He played only five Tests and all against India in 1952-53. 1963 Eddo Brandes, the Zimbabwean seamer who was famous for his chicken farm, was born on this day. Brandes seamed the ball with ease and was successful …

Consecutive birdies on the last two holes helped India’s Subhankar Sharma lift the title at the third edition of the Maybank Championship  at the Saujana Golf and Country Club in Subang. This is Subhankar’s second  Asian Tour and European Tour sanctioned tournament title after winning the Joburg Open in December …