A small Lancashire club went all starry-eyed and slack-jawed when a couple of West Indian invincibles turned out for them for two seasons in the 1990s

Twenty-three years ago, caught in the turmoil of the match-fixing saga, the Pakistani legend turned out for Smethwick CC

About 30 years ago, Mark Taylor and Matthew Hayden, legends in the making, spent a summer each as the overseas pro at an English club

Before he became Dre Russ, the Jamaican spent a season in Worcestershire that the locals still talk about

Did you know about the time, 25 years ago, when the Indian batsman plied his trade for clubs in the Bradford Cricket League?

Many sons have followed their fathers into cricket, but they haven't always played for the same sides

Harbhajan Singh picks a team from among the best cricketers he played against

Stuart MacGill picks a team from among the best cricketers he played with

Scott Styris picks a team from among the best white-ball cricketers he played with

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

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

Nick Compton picks a team from among the best cricketers he played with

If you were an England batsman of the 1990s and 2000s, the chances were pretty high McGrath had your scalp in his bag

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

Five players who made Man of the Match on debut, and never again

Nasser Hussain looks at the state of the world (and English) game

Fresh off an inspiring win in Pakistan, England headed to Sri Lanka in 2001, and proceeded to pull off an epic upset

Kumar Sangakkara opens up about the mental side of the game: dealing with the pressure of expectations, big finals, verbals, and captaincy

Five great bowlers and the batsmen they loved to get rid of

Harbhajan Singh on reincarnation, the music he plays in the dressing room, bingeing on Netflix, and the fastest bowler he faced