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How to win friends ...

To many, life doesn't get much better than being paid to play cricket inthe idyllic surroundings of the Caribbean. But cricket tours can begruelling affairs, and those in the West Indies mean almost non-stop travelling between islands. And when there are

14-Jul-2006•Martin Williamson

Compton, Ranji and the missing rupees

Martin Williamson on the time Denis Compton was promised Rs 50 a run in the final of the Ranji Trophy ... and went on to score 249. But when it came to payment ...

08-Jul-2006•Martin Williamson

The world's first knockout cup

Martin Williamson on the world's first serious attempt to stage a first-class knockout cup ... as long ago as 1873

01-Jul-2006•Martin Williamson

Those two little pals of mine ...

On June 29, 1950, West Indies completed an emphatic 326-run victory over England at Lord's. It was defining moment, not only in West Indies cricket, but in the history of the Caribbean ... and it sparked the release of a famous calypso

24-Jun-2006•Martin Williamson

What's in a name?

When S Trimnell scored 92 and 58 for Somerset against Gloucestershire, people wanted to know who he was. It turned out to be a pseudonym for a more well-known batsman making pulling a sickie from work

17-Jun-2006•Martin Williamson

The umpire who called time

Umpires are always under the spotlight and sometimes the pressure gets to them. In the case of Tom Brooks, it happened during an Ashes Test

03-Jun-2006•Martin Williamson

The record that shouldn't have been

Cricket records are broken fairly regularly, but few in such controversial circumstances as happened at Leyton in 1932

28-May-2006•Martin Williamson

When Sylvester Clarke bricked it

Cricket has, regrettably, many incidents of players being pelted with objects by bored or malicious spectators, but examples of the players retaliating in kind are mercifully rare

13-May-2006•Martin Williamson

Lord's under attack

Martin Williamson looks back at how Lord's survived the Second World War

06-May-2006•Martin Williamson

When Test cricket came to India

Jenny Thompson looks back to India's first Test against England at the Bombay Gmykhana in 1933

29-Apr-2006•Jenny Thompson

When Sunny spat the dummy

Dennis Lillee and Sunil Gavaskar are two of cricket's most successful players, and also two of the most controversial

24-Apr-2006•Martin Williamson

Inzamam and the Canadian <i>aloo</i>

Martin Williamson looks back to when Inzamam-ul-Haq decided to take the law into his own hands and set about an abusive spectator

22-Apr-2006•Martin Williamson

A familar tale of riots and betting

At Sydney in February 1879, pitch invasions, assaults and stories of behind-the-scenes gambling led to the cancallation of what would have been cricket's fourth Test

15-Apr-2006•Martin Williamson

Dropping the pilot ... from a great height

At the start of the 1986 season David Gower was captain of England, but he was hanging on by his fingernails

08-Apr-2006•Martin Williamson

Two-day disaster

Of all the daft innovations thrown at the County Championship, the decision to limit matches to two days in 1919 ranks as one of the worst

18-Mar-2006•Martin Williamson

Let there be light

Martin Williamson looks back on the world's first floodlit match ... and it took place more than 50 years ago at Arsenal

11-Mar-2006•Martin Williamson

Percival's throw

Martin Williamson looks back on the setting of one of cricket's most enduring records, that of throwing the cricket ball, way back in 1882

04-Mar-2006•Martin Williamson

Shoulder barges and flying stumps

Martin Williamson looks back to New Zealand v West Indies in 1979-80, one of the most acrimonious series of all time

18-Feb-2006•Martin Williamson

Harrogate's self-repairing pitch

Martin Williamson on some odd goings on at Harrogate

10-Feb-2006•Martin Williamson

Sobers's Rhodesian misjudgment

Martin Williamson on Garry Sobers's big mistake when he played cricket in Rhodesia

04-Feb-2006•Martin Williamson

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