Martin Williamson

Little cricket, lots of corruption

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

06-Jan-2010•Martin Williamson

Big brothers' indifference hurts the little guys

Little help from those at the top, even less from sponsors, and the ICC's bizarre decisions have left most of the Associates looking at a bleak 2010

03-Jan-2010•Martin Williamson

Hope floats

The return of former players to decision-making roles and the revamp of the domestic structure spell better days ahead for Zimbabwe

28-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson

Tom Tikolo quits Cricket Kenya over missing cash

Cricket Kenya's chief executive Tom Tikolo has resigned after it was discovered US$10,000 was unaccounted for

21-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson

Leicester veteran Stuart Symington dies

Stuart Symington, who captained Leicestershire in 1949 in what his only full season of first-class cricket, has died at the end of 83

16-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson

The captain who dropped himself

We look back to when Mike Denness, England's captain on a particularly unsuccessful Ashes tour, dropped himself

12-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson

Cricket's forgotten skeleton

May's history of the rebel tours to South Africa does not make for easy reading, but that's largely because apartheid itself was so appalling

05-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson

CSA asked Kenya to foot series bill

Cricket South Africa is understood to have demanded almost US$100,000 to play two one-day internationals against Kenya last month

02-Dec-2009•Martin Williamson and Andrew Miller

The ignorant internationals

A look back to a Test series where some of those taking part never knew they had become international cricketers

27-Nov-2009•Martin Williamson

The Dirty Dozen

As England kick off their series in South Africa, we look back to a tour that drew the fury of the wider world

13-Nov-2009•Martin Williamson

Hugh Dinwiddy dies aged 97

Hugh Dinwiddy, Kent's oldest cricketer and the last person to have played first-class cricket with both Don Bradman and Jack Hobbs, has died at the age of 97

02-Nov-2009•Martin Williamson

Icebergs, snowstorms and 'the fair sex'

When 12 English professionals set out on the first major overseas tour of all

31-Oct-2009•Martin Williamson

Barnett's bowl-out blues

When Derbyshire's bowlers found it all but impossible to hit a set of unguarded stumps

10-Oct-2009•Martin Williamson

Silverwood and Hendrick head to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Cricket has announced former England bowlers Chris Silverwood and Mike Hendrick have accepted roles within the country

08-Oct-2009•Martin Williamson

Fields of dreams from the sky

A book of stunning photographs of England's cricket grounds, accompanied by concise histories and anecdotes by players

03-Oct-2009•Martin Williamson

Luck and a helicopter

The 1976 John Player League went down to the wire... and left the BBC relying on guesswork to avoid backing a losing horse

26-Sep-2009•Martin Williamson

ICC critical following player defections

An ICC spokesman has criticised players from Afghanistan and Uganda who absconded at the end of the recent ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifiers

25-Sep-2009•Martin Williamson

From little acorns ...

Martin Williamson looks at Zimbabwe's new domestic set-up

18-Sep-2009•Martin Williamson

England legspinner Tommy Greenhough dies

Tommy Greenhough, who played four Tests for England between 1959 and 1960, has died at the age of 77 at a Rochdale nursing home

16-Sep-2009•Martin Williamson

Cricket in Ireland

11-Sep-2009•Martin Williamson

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