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Shane Warne's World Cup shame

How taking a tablet allegedly given to him by his mother to get rid of a double chin cost the legspinner a year of his career

14-Feb-2015•Martin Williamson

The birth of the World Cup

The low-key launch of the tournament in 1975

31-Jan-2015•Martin Williamson

The start of saturation cricket

Australia's international tri-series came out of financial necessity and the need to appease a broadcaster

17-Jan-2015•Martin Williamson

The return of Bob Simpson

When the 41-year-old former captain came out of retirement to lead Australia against India

19-Dec-2014•Martin Williamson

The bouncer that ended a career

In 1962, India's captain, Nari Contractor, was left critically ill after being hit on the head by a West Indian fast bowler

06-Dec-2014•Martin Williamson

Four afternoons into immortality

In 1899 a 13-year-old orphan at Clifton College established a world record which stands to this day

22-Nov-2014•Martin Williamson

Cricket while Dhaka burned

The tour of Pakistan that was nearly aborted due to unrest relating to the Bangladeshi independence movement

08-Nov-2014•Martin Williamson

Shell-shocked and bloodied

England arrived in Australia full of hope... and left routed, battered and bewildered

10-Oct-2014•Martin Williamson

An Englishman abroad

The story of the great actor-cricketer Charles Aubrey Smith, and Hollywood CC, founded in the early '30s

27-Sep-2014•Martin Williamson

Down to the wire

When the County Championship was controversially tied for the last time after a gripping finale to the season

13-Sep-2014•Martin Williamson

India's Constant problem

How a row over the appointment of an umpire at the start of 1982 eventually led to the Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting stand-off

30-Aug-2014•Martin Williamson

Duty calls

As losses mounted at the start of World War I, cricket continued to rumble on until the public outcry grew too loud

04-Aug-2014•Martin Williamson

Boycott floored by an Indian trundler

When Eknath Solkar got under the skin of Geoff Boycott, leading to a three-year self-imposed exile from Test cricket

26-Jul-2014•Martin Williamson

Gower savours life in the last chance saloon

David Gower was on the verge of being dropped for good at The Oval in 1990 before he scored a charismatic 157 against India

12-Jul-2014•Martin Williamson

The new Larwood who destroyed India

Fred Trueman was called up by England because he was fast... as India's fragile batting line-up discovered on his debut at Headingley

28-Jun-2014•Martin Williamson

Undercooked South Africa's all-time low

South Africa's lack of preparation was there for all to see as they started a series by being bowled out for a record low score

14-Jun-2014•Martin Williamson

Lara's quintuple fable

Six weeks after smashing 375, then the highest Test score, Brian Lara became the only man to pass 500 in first-class cricket

31-May-2014•Martin Williamson

Absent... dead

A seemingly run-of-the-mill Championship match grabbed the headlines when a player was found dead in his bed on the second morning of the game

17-May-2014•Martin Williamson

Lara reclaims his record

Six months after losing his record for the highest Test score, Brian Lara faced England in Antigua. And rewrote history

03-May-2014•Martin Williamson

The world record that nearly wasn't

Twenty years ago this week, Brian Lara became Test cricket's highest scorer, but he almost didn't make it

17-Apr-2014•Martin Williamson

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