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INTL CAREER: 1951 - 1959

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Alphabetically sorted top ten of players who have played the most matches across formats in the last 12 months

It's a draw!

It's a draw!

After Darren Bravo's superb effort in Dunedin, a look at some other famous match-saving innings in Tests

09-Dec-2013•Steven Lynch

War of the Roses

War of the Roses

EW Swanton on an epic post-war Roses match

12-Oct-2007•EW Swanton

The epoch makers

The epoch makers

Andrew Miller looks back on ten of the greatest momentum-seizing matches in Anglo-Australian history

07-Jul-2005•Andrew Miller

The Watson- Bailey epic

The Watson- Bailey epic

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

Hero of the 1953 Lord's Test dies at 84

Hero of the 1953 Lord's Test dies at 84

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

24-Apr-2004•Steven Lynch

A man for all seasons

A man for all seasons

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

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