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God's own blob

God's own blob

The story of the most famous duck in the game

16-Aug-2008•Brydon Coverdale

Waking up the neighbours

Waking up the neighbours

Three years after they became a Test nation, Sri Lanka notched up their first win - against the big brothers from across the strait

02-Aug-2008•Nagraj Gollapudi

The strange case of the missing opponents

The strange case of the missing opponents

A look back to Glamorgan's 1969 Championship-winning season and a curious game where their opponents left early

25-Jul-2008•Martin Williamson

Springing a surprise

Springing a surprise

When England's selectors pulled a 37-year-old googly bowler out of the hat for the Ashes

19-Jul-2008•Martin Williamson

From club to country in one week

From club to country in one week

Desperate times call for desperate measures... but so desperate as to call up a bowler who only made his first-class debut 24 hours earlier to open the attack in a Test?

05-Jul-2008•Martin Williamson

Shaking hands with a despot

Shaking hands with a despot

When Michael Atherton met Robert Mugabe

28-Jun-2008•Martin Williamson

The D'Oliveira Affair

The D'Oliveira Affair

A timeline of events which led to the cancellation of the 1968-69 England tour of South Africa

24-Jun-2008•Martin Williamson

Seaside shuffle

Seaside shuffle

When beach resorts hit upon a novel way of keeping holiday crowds up to date with the latest news from that summer's Ashes Tests

14-Jun-2008•Martin Williamson

Riot ... what riot?

Riot ... what riot?

The Kingston Test in 1968 is best remembered for the ill-advised use of tear gas by the police to control the crowd. Geoff Smith, the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation scorer at the game, looks back

07-Jun-2008•Geoff Smith

When the Master felt the pressure

When the Master felt the pressure

A look back at the expectations that surrounded Jack Hobbs in 1925

31-May-2008•Martin Williamson

Getting shirty about substitutes

Getting shirty about substitutes

The subject of substitute fielders has attracted considerable comment and the ICC is set to clamp down on their use. It was an issue that was high on the agenda twenty-seven years ago

16-May-2008•Martin Williamson

The last great single-wicket contest

The last great single-wicket contest

When Alfred Mynn and Nicholas Felix went head-to-head

03-May-2008•Martin Williamson

Blowing up a blind man and his dog

Blowing up a blind man and his dog

When suffragettes burned down a cricket pavilion

12-Apr-2008•Martin Williamson

The coup that wasn't

The coup that wasn't

West Indies had gone a decade without losing a Test at home. Then along came Imran Khan and Co.

05-Apr-2008•Suresh Menon

Hammond's Test triple

Hammond's Test triple

When Wally Hammond blitzed a remarkable triple hundred

29-Mar-2008•Martin Williamson

'I honestly thought I had killed him'

'I honestly thought I had killed him'

When Ewen Chatfield's life was saved by the quick action of the England physio

22-Mar-2008•Martin Williamson

A costly tackle

A costly tackle

In a week where Andrew Symonds hit the headlines for shoulder-barging a streaker we look back at the Perth Test in November 1982, when a similar move almost cost a player his career

08-Mar-2008•Martin Williamson

More sinned against than sinner

More sinned against than sinner

When Phil Tufnell was for once on the receiving end

28-Feb-2008•Martin Williamson

Rocking the cradle

Rocking the cradle

As the teams battle it out for the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, we go back 20 years to the time a bunch of kids vied for the first championship of the kind

23-Feb-2008•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Nine innings ... no runs

Nine innings ... no runs

Seymour Clark had a county career of five matches, during which he kept wicket brilliantly ... and never once got off the mark

15-Feb-2008•David Foot

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