A snooze, a smoke, a roar

Aug 11, 2011 | The Long Room
The Test match-watching experience has changed over the years - the players' faces are obscured, the grounds are more coldly impersonal - but the buzz of a big game remains

David Frith's play-for-your-life XI

For your money (and your life)

Oct 20, 2010 | All-time XI: World
A play-for-your-life XI who'll do you proud when it's a choice between not losing and heading to the gas chamber

No. 15

Bodyline

Apr 10, 2010 | Turning Points
There was outrage over England's tactics in the 1932-33 Ashes, but in the years that followed bouncers shocked no one

Alec Bedser

A giant of his generation

Apr 5, 2010 | Tributes
Alec Bedser was an impressive figure of a man, and his feats with the ball were befittingly large

No, Prime Minister

Mar 4, 2010 | Opinion
A one-time school-mate remembers John Howard, the nominee for the ICC's top post, and a genteel disagreement they had over a certain urn

No. 9

The golden age

Feb 20, 2010 | Turning Points
Before the First World War came a period in cricket marked by the brilliance of dashing amateurs

David Shepherd

The epitome of the English sportsman

Oct 28, 2009 | Tributes
Shep was a cricketer before he was an umpire, and in both roles he loved the game immensely

The XI

What does this team tell us?

Aug 28, 2009 | All-time XI: England
The jury's choice seems a comment on the reduced role of skill in the modern game

Scarlet: Clarrie Grimmett - Test Cricketer

Unconventional, endearing, imperfect

May 2, 2009 | Reviews
A few errors aside, a tasty biography of the legspinner who discovered the flipper - and the cost of irking The Don