Pankaj Roy

The first detailed assessment of Pankaj Roy, Bengal's first great cricketer, is a significant, if flawed, effort

Martin Williamson takes a look at the stories behind the record stands for each wicket in Test cricket ... all XI of them

Memories of India's 1952-53 tour of the Caribbean from GS Ramchand

It's been 5920 days since this last happened: India had a Gavaskar turning out for them but not a Tendulkar

I remember that I had just started my international career when, one day in Mumbai, I met the great Vijay Merchant

Bengal's first cricket legend Pankaj Roy passed away at Kolkata's Anandalok Nursing Home in the early hours of Sunday

Pankaj Roy, who passed away in Kolkata in the early hours of Sunday, was the foremost Indian opening batsman throughout the fifties

Their names do not roll off the tongue together in the same manner as Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Hutton and Washbrook, Lawry and Simpson and Greenidge and Haynes

Pankaj Roy, the former Indian opener and selector feels that it has been a wrong policy to drop the likes of Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Nikhil Chopra from the Indian team

Perhaps the greatest tribute to Pankaj Roy, who turns 72 on Wednesday, would be to point out that some of his records as an opening batsmen were not broken till a certain Sunil Manohar Gavaskar came along, about a decade after he played his last Test

The world record was notched up 44 years today