The demeaning of Fred

Jun 23, 2012: Andrew Flintoff's outburst against Michael Atherton only serves to tarnish the way we would like to remember him best.

World Cup 2011

MacLaurin slams 'crazy' England schedule

Feb 7, 2011: Lord MacLaurin, the former chairman of the ECB, has laid into the "crazy" schedule that England's cricketers have been subjected to in Australia this winter, but believes it will have little bearing on their performance in the World Cup

Sports Journalists' Association Awards

Mike Atherton named Sports Writer of the Year

Mar 9, 2010: Michael Atherton, the former England captain, has won the UK's top honour for a sports writer, being named Sports Writer of the Year for 2009 by the Sports Journalists' Association

1998

Sabina farce

Feb 13, 2009: Following the abandonment of the first day's play in Antigua owing to a sandy and dangerous pitch, we look back 11 years to the scene of another curtailed Caribbean Test, the first of the1997-98 West Indies-England series

Stanford and the WAGs

Girl trouble

Oct 30, 2008: Allen Stanford was caught on camera getting rather close to some of the England players' partners

Aakash Chopra

Athers, Sunny and I

Oct 7, 2008: An opener on his inspirations

Can bat, can bowl, can't write

Aug 18, 2008: All too few top-level players have the writing skills to match. So why are they increasingly making inroads into the cricket media?

England v South Africa, 1998

Donald denied by Dunkirk defiance

Aug 3, 2008: When South Africa came to England in 1998, they were expected to take the series. Then the script went awry

South Africa v England, 2nd Test, Johannesburg, 1995

Iron Mike makes a fist of it

Jul 11, 2008: When Atherton produced a guts-and-glory classic at the Wanderers

1996

Shaking hands with a despot

Jun 28, 2008: When Michael Atherton met Robert Mugabe

Run, run, run

May 28, 2008: Batsmen who have been let down by their - or others' - running

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

The Major steps back

Apr 6, 2008: Set to retire from the Times, Christopher Martin-Jenkins talks about past times, present gripes and future plans

Changes at major broadsheet

Atherton moves to The Times

Oct 25, 2007: Mike Atherton will replace Christopher Martin-Jenkins as cricket correspondent of The Times after England's tour of New Zealand early next year

India in England, 2007

Sreesanth must be banned for beamer: Atherton

Aug 5, 2007: Michael Atherton, the former England captain, has called for Sreesanth to be banned from The Oval Test for bowling a beamer at Kevin Pietersen

England captains are never great one-day players

It's not just Vaughan

Apr 17, 2007:

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2007 - Shane Warne

The mighty craftsman

Mar 28, 2007: A tribute to Shane Warne by Mike Atherton

Fall-out to 5-0 whitewash

Ken Schofield to head Ashes review

Jan 16, 2007: The ECB have turned to the world of golf as they search for answers as to where they disastrous Ashes tour went wrong

Pressure will be on young spinners

'An impossible act to follow'

Dec 27, 2006: The cricket world has been cautioned not to expect too much of the young spin bowlers who will be the long-term replacements for Shane Warne

Mike Atherton's Gambling: A story of triumph and disaster

Athers takes a gamble

Dec 2, 2006: Matthew Engel reviews Mike Atherton's Gambling: A story of triumph and disaster

Pakistan v West Indies, 1st Test, Lahore, 2nd day

Where have all the grafters gone?

Nov 12, 2006: Test cricket has never been played at a quicker pace than in this modern age. Since over-rates are universally poor, it is the batsmen's scoring we refer to. Run rates and strike rates are rising and a score of 300 runs in a day is only just about par, wh