First Test, Brisbane

It never rains...

Nov 27, 2006: Rain here was always a phantom of English, and cricketing, imagination

First Test, Brisbane

Time for a Commercial Break

Nov 26, 2006: Great concern this summer attended the arrival of the Barmy Army, whose songs, chants and general bonhomie, it was feared, would drown out Australian fans, and render Tests inhospitable – or, at least, interfere with time-honoured parochialism and

First Test, Brisbane

Leading Exponents

Nov 25, 2006: The Ashes embodies cricket's most traditional format: five five-day Tests played in white by daylight

A Tale of Two Lengths

Nov 24, 2006: The First Test looks like being a tale of two lengths

First Test, Brisbane

One-Man Bureaucracy

Nov 23, 2006: Duncan Fletcher: The New Illy?

Touring

Australia...you're standing in it

Nov 22, 2006: England face two challengers his summer: a team and a country

Touring

The Sorrows of Young Marcus

Nov 21, 2006: One of the surprising features of Marcus Trescothick’s travails is that they should have befallen so consummate a professional

Peter the Cat - Gideon Haigh

The mog that got into the mausoleum

Oct 13, 2006: Gideon Haigh takes us on a guided tour of a new anthology of Wisden obituaries that includes poets, pacifists, prime ministers...and a cat

Darrell Hair

Nerves of steel and a heart of flint

Sep 28, 2006: The life and times of controversial umpire Darrell Hair

Abe Bailey

'So much done, so little to do'

Sep 12, 2006: Gideon Haigh looks at the remarkable Abe Bailey, the man responsible for the ICC

Roy Marshall

The finest kind of madness

Aug 23, 2006: Roy Marshall felt that cricket contained two kinds of madman: the fast bowler, because he expended his energies so wildly and thriftlessly; but also the opening batsman

Ajit Wadekar

Serenity at its cold-blooded best

Aug 9, 2006:

Charlie Blythe

Blythe's canvas immortality

Aug 1, 2006: Gideon Haigh looks at Kent's slow left-arm hero Charlie Blythe

Archie MacLaren

The Majestic MacLaren that wasn't

Jul 18, 2006: Gideon Haigh looks at the creation of a majestic cricketer in Archie MacLaren by writer Neville Cardus

Odd Men In

Out of the shadows

Jul 4, 2006: Vintcent van der Bijl wasn't the obvious choice for The Times' hundred greatest cricketers when it was published in 1997. And yet his inclusion passed with remarkably little objection. Gideon Haigh explains why

Odd Men In

Errol Hunte and the cricketer who never was

Jun 20, 2006: RL Hunte's records appeared in Wisden for eighteen years; he had a contemporary corporeal counterpart. But when he vanished hugger-mugger, it was as though he'd never been there. And, in fact, he hadn't, says Gideon Haigh

Odd Men In

Ewen Chatfield - The niggardly farmer

Jun 6, 2006: In the 1980s, New Zealand cricket had larger-than-life luminaries like Sir Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe; yet they were somehow personified by the lesser-than-life figure of Ewen Chatfield, says Gideon Haigh

Odd Men In

Bob Fowler - The student prince

May 23, 2006: Gideon Haigh looks back at Fowler's match in 1910 ... forgotten now, but back then, the talk of the Empire

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Aye, aye, coach - the rise and rise of the backroom boys

May 14, 2006: Today, the role of coaching in every country is crucial, controversial and rather precarious: eight of the ten Test nations have changed their coach in the past three years, some several times. Gideon Haigh explores

Odd men in

Dennis Amiss - Search party

May 8, 2006: Dennis Amiss was a slow-ripening cricketer, who took five years to win his county cap for Warwickshire, then five years to make his first Test half century, being `completely overawed' and `horribly nervous' at the top level

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