1994

The world record that nearly wasn't

Apr 19, 2014: Twenty years ago this week, Brian Lara became Test cricket's highest scorer, but he almost didn't make it

1963

Dimly fades the Don

Mar 29, 2014: Fifteen years after his famous final Test innings, Bradman faced England once again

1990

'Write anything bad and I'll whack you'

Mar 15, 2014: When Viv Richards took exception to a front-page report and marched up to the press box to have words with the journalist

1990

Demented and orgasmic gesticulations

Mar 1, 2014: Viv Richards' over-the-top celebrations and a commentary row blighted the fourth Test of 1990 in Bridgetown

1982

The end of the line for Boycott

Feb 15, 2014: Geoff Boycott largely chose the time and nature of his quitting Test cricket but ruffled feathers in the process

1930

Playing two Tests in a day

Feb 1, 2014: In the first month of 1930 England found themselves playing simultaneous Test series in New Zealand and the Caribbean

1908

When cricket hit the West End

Jan 18, 2014: The game has been played in few stranger places than in the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties in St Martin's Lane

1958

England routed in 'a travesty of a game'

Dec 21, 2013: England went Down Under with great expectations in 1958, but things went downhill rapidly for them

1933

A near riot at Adelaide Oval

Dec 7, 2013: The lowest point of one of cricket's most bitter series came in Adelaide in 1933, when mounted police were needed to prevent a riot in an Ashes Test

1953

A barnacle on Australia's backside

Nov 23, 2013: Questionable spirit of cricket isn't just a modern tendency. Great players of the past also indulged in it, especially when it came to saving a Test

1992

When a rusty Jonathan Agnew 'got away with it'

Nov 9, 2013: One of the game's more unusual comebacks involved the long-time BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew

2006

The first-class farce

Oct 26, 2013: Seven years ago Zimbabwe cricket was in the same boat it is in today - financially crippled and struggling to conduct domestic tournaments

1983

The fastest hundred that never was

Sep 28, 2013: How Steve O'Shaughnessy's whirlwind knock managed to upset purists and cause controversy over the tactics used

1963

'A perversion of positive cricket'

Sep 14, 2013: The world's first one-day final still managed to upset purists and cause controversy over the tactics used

1973

The start of a love affair

Aug 31, 2013: When a one-sided one-day international at The Oval in the late summer of 1973 triggered a passion that lasts to this day

1953

Same Ashes, but an altogether different world

Aug 17, 2013: England regained the Ashes at The Oval in 1953 and 2005. But the experience of Test cricket could not have changed more in in the 52 years between the two matches

1993

The ball of the century

Aug 3, 2013: When a peroxide-blond, earring-wearing leggie turned the game of cricket on its head

1975

Overexposed at Lord's

Jul 20, 2013: When a merchant seaman stripped down to his trainers and hurdled the stumps during an Ashes Test at Lord's

1938

The boy who bowled Bradman

Jun 29, 2013: A 16-year-old schoolboy made the front pages of the national newspapers when he bowled the greatest batsman of all

2005

'Scared dinkum' and dead-drunk Australians

Jun 15, 2013: A drunk allrounder and players scared witless by a ghost provided an unsettling start to Australia's 2005 Ashes campaign