Alan Knott

Beneath the gentle facade lay a spinner whose weapons were accuracy and fear

Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Jos Buttler all named on New Year's Honours list

Mike Gatting picks a team from among the best cricketers he played with

Graham Gooch picks a team from among the best cricketers he played with

No. 7 used to be reserved for batsmen and allrounders. Then along came the wicketkeepers

From eccentrics to game changers and now to leaders, where will - or won't - wicketkeepers go next?

Former England keeper Bob Taylor talks about what you need to be world-class behind the stumps

Possibly the world's finest wicketkeeper ever now spends his days far from the game in Cyprus

England's all-time team has just two players from the last 30 years

One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side

A second batch of XI players from the past who would have excelled at Twenty20

When two wicketkeepers appear for a side in the same game

While Alan Knott was keeping wicket for England in 65 successive Tests in the 1970s, there was not a gloveman in the world to touch him. But he was not merely a keeper of impish brilliance: Knott was England's lower-order not-so-secret weapon

England's Greatest Post-War XI is named with the publication of the October issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine

1941 One of England's most accomplished wicketkeepers is born