Indra Vikram Singh's heritage and myriad strokes

Musings on a royal legacy, the game of cricket and current issues.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Golden jubilee of the Men’s One-day Cricket World Cup. Three-volume collector’s edition set of books

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  The Men’s One-day Cricket World Cup began on this day 50 years ago, 7th June 1975, with four matches played at the English grounds of Lord...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Test Cricket - A World XI between the two World Wars

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  The inimitable Don Bradman in his record-breaking 1930 series. The period between the two World Wars, and a few years more, was the Bradma...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Top wicketkeepers in Test Cricket between the two World Wars

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Bert Oldfield Leslie Ames The only wicketkeeper with 100 dismissals to his credit between the two World Wars was the great Australian Willia...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Top allrounders in Test cricket between the two World Wars

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Maurice Tate was the only player to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets between the two World Wars. The two decades between the two World W...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Top Bowlers in Test Cricket between the two World Wars

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  Clarrie Grimmett Maurice Tate Hedley Verity Bill O'Reilly Top Bowlers in Test Cricket between the two World Wars The giants among bo...
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Indra Vikram Singh
Scion of the princely house of Rajpipla, now in the province of Gujarat, India, and descendant of the ancient Gohil Rajput dynasty, Indra Vikram Singh is a sportsman, entrepreneur, writer, author, editor and publisher. He is author of 'Test Cricket - End of the Road?' (1992), 'World Cup Cricket' (2002), 'The Little Big Book of World Cup Cricket' (2007 and 2011 editions), 'The Big Book of World Cup Cricket' (2011), 'A Maharaja's Turf' (2011) on the triumph of his grandfather Maharaja Sir Vijaysinhji of Rajpipla in the Epsom Derby of England in 1934, 'Don's Century' (2011) which is a biography of Don Bradman and a panorama of batting from the 1860s to the present times, and 'Crowning Glory' (2011) and 'Indian Spring' (2015), both on India's triumph in the ICC World Cup 2011. A talented allround cricketer, he captained teams of both his school and college. He was the moving force behind the setting up of sports complexes in Delhi in the latter part of the 1980s and early 1990s, and is now setting up a heritage resort.
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