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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The best player not to play a Test

From the mid 1890s until the First World War, the Philadelphia Gentlemen could match the world's best sides. All thanks to Bart King
Bart King: a truly fast outswing bowler with the occasional, devastating, inswinger © PA Photos
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AUGUST 25, 2013

The original Little Master

Hanif Mohammad almost single-handedly carried Pakistan's batting in their early days as a Test nation
JUNE 05, 2013

One-day cricket turns fifty? Not quite

Michael Turner, the Midlands Knockout Competition, and the origin of the limited-overs format
APRIL 14, 2013

So you're not a keeper?

Today any failed selection is called a blunder. But back in 1890, in a case of mistaken identity, Australia picked a batsman as their reserve gloveman for the tour of England
MARCH 23, 2013

The greatest Zimbabweans?

Which is the best-ever team from Zimbabwe? The obvious answer would be the 1998 side that won a series in Pakistan but, pre-independence, Rhodesia were a powerful force in South African domestic cricket
FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Remembering Australia's first tour of India

The Australian cricketers of 1956-57 were not so keen to tour India as they are today but that first encounter was memorable for a number of reasons
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