This place is so $hite now!

Thanks for sharing these. Such valuable stuff for the fans. I haven't stayed in touch with cricket in last 10 yrs but this stuff I will save. Makes me realize how much cricket has changed... since India's Lagaan-sort-of-days.

Thanks Flex bro... Great articles...

Anyone has paper clippings of articles after India's WC win?

Cheers,

greatttttttttt collection Flex ji


thnx again for all this................i wont stop sying thnx

this is the third set of article iam dloading from you...THANKOO Thankoo



Thnx

Sonu

Flexie !

Excellent stuff here, very interesting insight and background into what was Imran Khan's maiden tour with the Pakistan team.

Ps: With your permission, Flex, would it be acceptable to post them in another forum ?

FLEX ji

yeah even i want to ask the same Q

Can i post it another forum with due referance of your name ??????

i think there shd not be any problem in emailing to frds


plz reply coz these are rare pics you felt like taking persmision from you like akhtar ji



thnx
sonu

Thanks Flex bhai a lot

You take so much pain in Scaning the pictures/articles, so it bcomes important to take permission

Thankoo


Sonu

Flex ji Nekki aur Pooch pooch plz do upload them

Take your time to upload these rare treasures


god bless

Sonu

"There is no better bowler in the world today than Amar Singh,'' said Len Hutton in an informal chat with pressmen at Madras in 1970. It was 34 years since the legendary England opening batsman had faced the Indian medium pace bowler while playing for Yorkshire. And it is the perfect tribute to Amar Singh that Hutton still remembered the hard time that the Indian, then a member of the 1936 Indian team, gave him. Another England great Wally Hammond described Amar Singh's bowling as ``he came off the pitch like the crack of doom''. Indeed, Amar Singh, along with Md Nissar was the first great Indian bowler for his accuracy, stamina and ability to make the ball move alarmingly off the air or cut it devastatingly off the pitch. He played in all the seven Tests before the war. In the first Test in 1932 he took four wickets and hit an attacking 51, coming in at No 9. Against England in 1933-34, he was the country's best bowler taking four for 106 off 54.5 overs in the second Test at Calcutta. In the final Test at Madras, in the absence of Nissar, he had to work overtime and rose to the occasion with a bag of seven for 86 off 44.4 overs in the first innings. Going in at No 4, he scored a hard hitting 48.

Amar Singh was however at his best in England where the conditions suited him. In 1932, he took 111 wickets (20.78) and made 641 runs (22.89) in the first class matches. By 1936 he was a popular Lancashire League professional and was released only for a few games for the Indian touring team. In the first Test, he took six for 35 in the first innings. In the second Test he again displayed his batting prowess by hitting an unbeaten 48 to help India draw the game. In the final Test at the Oval he scored a valuable 44 going in at No 4 thus proving beyond doubt that he could be classified as an all rounder. In a short but brilliant Ranji Trophy career for Western India and Nawanagar he took 105 wickets at 15.56 apiece. He died untimely in 1940 at the age of 29.

This photograph is of first Test match played between India and England at Lords, June 1932. Douglas Jardine batting against Amar Singh.

Guys remember why the Douglas Jardine is famous(infamous) for?


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I'll follow along Akhtar's lines:

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Thanks a million Flex for these excellent uploads !

Mahesh ji thanks for the article
I knew nothing abt Amar Singh

thanks for pic and article

wiase yeh Douglas bhai saab wahi hai BODYLINE bowling series waale???

Not sure


Thanks

Sonu

Correct... yehi woh hain jinhone Don Bradman ki runs ki bhookh ko shaant karne ke
liye ye tarqeeb nikali thi.