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De real Master, whom the West Indies couldn’t out at all
Sumit Chakraberty Filed on March 11, 2021
Sunil Gavaskar showed mastery over pace in his debut series in the West Indies, and mastery over spin in his last Test on a rank turner in Bangalore.
Imagine a 21-year-old debutant cricketer inspiring a song in another land. Such was the mesmerising debut series of Sunil Gavaskar in the West Indies 50 years ago. The Little Master scored 774 runs in four Tests at an average of 154.80, which remains a record for the most runs in a debut series.
Records aside, it was a defining year for Indian cricket, because India beat the West Indies for the first time in Gavaskar’s debut Test on March 6, 1971, went on to win the series, and followed that up with a maiden series win in England.
March 10, 2021
The first month in high school can often be unnerving and discomfiting in a new environment. As a six-year-old stepping into Mumbai’s Campion School in January 1971, I was worried about being bullied by seniors and being away from home all day. I needn’t have bothered. Barely a month into school, I was being feted in the morning school assembly. It had nothing to do with any sporting or academic achievements on my part. My father, the late Dilip Sardesai, had in February 1971 just become the first Indian to score an overseas double century and everyone in school suddenly seemed to know that the scrawny little boy in class one was the “son of Sardesai.” It was a calling card that I have had to live with for much of my life, especially in cricketing circles.
Thursday 4 March 2021
Kieron Pollard of West Indies celebrates hitting six sixes off Akila Dananjaya of Sri Lanka during a T20i match against Sri Lanka at Coolidge Cricket Ground on Wednesday in Osbourn, Antigua and Barbuda. (AFP PHOTO) -
A POSITIVE approach against the spinners paid off for West Indies captain Kieron Pollard on Wednesday, as he became the third player to hit six sixes in an over, in an international match.
Pollard smashed six sixes off Sri Lanka s off-spinner Akila Dananjaya s third over, in the first T20 International match between the teams at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua - the first-ever international match at the venue.
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8.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says that a few vaccines will be made available to Barbados.
14.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley told Barbadians in an address that she received her first dose of a COVID vaccine. She along with the Attorney General Dale Marshall, the Health Minister Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic and some frontline workers.
9.2.2021 - Barbados receives a donation of 100,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as Covishield. The doses were a grant from India.
10.2.2021 - St Lucia received 1,000 doses of the vaccine from the Government of Barbados.
11.2.2021 - Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine today.