Martin Williamson

A look back at a 111-year-old record: one of the biggest and most famous shots played at Lord's

Martin Williamson argues the latest crisis to undermine Kenyan cricket is one about out-and-out self interest and could do irreparable harm to the game

Cricket Kenya has been forced to cancel a short tour to England after a contractual dispute arose between the board and the players on the eve of the trip

A look back at one of the hottest English summers on record... when snow stopped play in June

A look back at an English summer when the pitches were flat, the scores tall, bowlers' shoulders drooped, and spectators cried for mercy

Few changes to the Laws have been as drastic or, even without the benefit of hindsight, crazy than the one tried out by the MCC in 1900

Middlesex paceman Iain O'Brien held sway on the first day at Lord's with his best County Championship figures as Gloucestershire were dismissed for 268

When the great man scored a hundred in three eight-ball overs, spanning around 18 minutes

Tony MacGibbon, who died aged 85, was one of the survivors from New Zealand's first Test win over West Indies in 1955-56

The batsman who was given out while he was on a train

A look back at the first time an All-India side took to the field

Chris Cairns talks to Cricinfo about his decision to take Lalit Modi to court after the IPL supremo implied he had been associated with match-fixing

When Bert Vance went for 77, in what must rank as one of the oddest overs in first-class cricket

The ICC faces a tough call when it has to decide what to do following crowd trouble in the match between Nepal and USA

In Don Lockerbie, the USA Cricket Association, finally has a plausible and forward-looking leader, and one who has spent much of the last year outlining his ambitious plans for the game in the United States

Alan Butcher, the former England batsman and father of former England international Mark Butcher, has been appointed Zimbabwe coach

Twenty years ago this week Nelson Mandela was released from prison at the same time that South Africa was hosting one of cricket's most infamous tours

Delegates of an international mineral rights workshop got together to play the most southerly game of cricket

As England recovers from a cold snap, Martin Williamson looks back to when the bitter winter enabled England's cricketers to enjoy a short alternative season

The game was an afterthought in a decade of near anarchy under the Mugabe regime: Zimbabwe lost Test status, most of its senior players, and the compassion of the cricketing world