Category: Sports

(Extraordinary lovers of the game called cricket are all geared up and excited to be a part of the tournament “The 1886 Trophy” and are saying it aloud that they are proud of the heritage where it all began. CricFit author and Sports Media Specialist Binaisha M. Surti brings you a pre- view of all… Continue reading “The 1886 Trophy”: A Matter Of Pride For The Cricketing Fraternity

Marzban Patel—better known as Bawa—has been doing this for almost 40 years, and he did not change it on August 17, when it was announced that he had been awarded the Dronacharya in the Lifetime category. Marzban Patel is a small, gaunt man with close cropped hair that’s entirely silver and a toothless smile. Every… Continue reading Legendary Hockey Coach Marzban Patel wins Dronacharya Award for Lifetime Achievement

Both the fraternity of Indian cricket fans as well as that of Bollywood lovers are keenly awaiting the arrival of the movie ’83 on the silver screen. This movie, based on Indian cricket team’s memorable triumph in the 1983 cricket World Cup, will have the current Bollywood heartthrob Ranveer Singh essaying the role of Indian… Continue reading Boman Irani to play Farokh Engineer in Ranveer Singh starrer ’83

Zoroastrian festival of ‘Khordad Sal’ celebrated prior to the match Friday 23rd August 2019 was a beautiful English sunny day for the historic cricket match to be played at the Kia Oval between the Parsee Gymkhana of Mumbai and Surrey County Cricket Club’s Charles Alcock XI. Article in the Asian Voice. Celebrating the tour of… Continue reading Touring Parsees meet in England for the ‘1886 Trophy’

More than 130 years after a team made up entirely of Parsees arrived in the UK for India’s first international cricket tour, a group from England travelled in the opposite direction to honour those pioneers. Charlie Inglefield, a member of that party, explained the significance of the 1886 tour and why it should be remembered… Continue reading The Parsee pioneers of 1886

SEEING the legendary Farokh Engineer among the spectators at the Old Trafford, with his shock of curly white hair and a Falstaffian girth that seemed to meld nicely with his incorrigibly impish smile, my mind went into the enticing time machine for a rendezvous with the great Parsi cricketers India once flaunted. Then, the penny… Continue reading Beyond winning and losing

Talyarkhan, Indian cricket’s first commentator, began speaking from a little corner of a Bombay maidan. In the ‘Signpost’ section of the magazine India Today, dated 15 August 1990, an announcement was made: Died: Ardheshir Furdonji Sohrabji Talyarkhan, 93. A prolific and trenchant columnist even at his age, ‘Bobby’ Talyarkhan was a legendary figure in sports… Continue reading ‘Bobby’ Talyarkhan: The Pioneer Of Indian Cricket Commentary