The Top Ten ...

The epoch makers

Jul 7, 2005: Andrew Miller looks back on ten of the greatest momentum-seizing matches in Anglo-Australian history

Obituary, 2005

Willie Watson

2005: © Getty Images WATSON , WILLIE, died in Johannesburg on April 23, 2004, aged 84

July 1980

The Watson- Bailey epic

Oct 4, 2004: John Arlott's personal reflections on the great England rearguard at Lord's in 1953, when, it seemed, half the country held its breath all afternoon

Willie Watson 1920-2004

A man for all seasons

Apr 24, 2004: Willie Watson, who has died at 84, saved the 1953 Lord's Test with a memorable innings, and was one of the last to play both cricket and football for England

Willie Watson 1920-2004

Hero of the 1953 Lord's Test dies at 84

Apr 24, 2004: Willie Watson, the former Yorkshire and England batsman, has died at his home in Johannesburg at the age of 84

The Cricketer August 1975

War of the Roses

Aug 1, 1975: EW Swanton on an epic post-war Roses match

CRICKETER OF THE YEAR - 1954

Willie Watson

1954: In all things except his batting Willie Watson, of Yorkshire, is a right-hander