Almanac Cricket: Lillee v Miandad

Ian Wilson remembers one of the more extraordinary encounters occurring on a Test cricket field – the confrontation between Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad.

Almanac Life: Elizabeth South Primary, Grade 7, 1972.

Swish reckons that 1972, his final year of primary school at Elizabeth South was up there with his best. [Fine memoir – JTH]

Almanac Cricket: Back to the ‘Bishens’

From the Footy Almanac archives we reprise this cracking cricket story by Dips O’Donnell first published on this day in 2010.

Almanac Rewind – Mike Sexton in India: Finding Cricket and Space in Delhi

With the test series against India beginning tomorrow, let’s revisit this piece from Mike Sexton, published late last year. A taste of modern Dehli, and an insight into modern Indian cricket. (If you didn’t get a copy of Border’s Battlers at the time, it’s well worth it – Ed).