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Dimly fades the Don

Fifteen years after his famous final Test innings, Bradman faced England once again

28-Mar-2014•Martin Williamson

'Write anything bad and I'll whack you'

When Viv Richards took exception to a front-page report and marched up to the press box to have words with the journalist

15-Mar-2014•Martin Williamson

Demented and orgasmic gesticulations

Viv Richards' over-the-top celebrations and a commentary row blighted the fourth Test of 1990 in Bridgetown

01-Mar-2014•Martin Williamson

The end of the line for Boycott

Geoff Boycott largely chose the time and nature of his quitting Test cricket but ruffled feathers in the process

15-Feb-2014•Martin Williamson

Playing two Tests in a day

In the first month of 1930 England found themselves playing simultaneous Test series in New Zealand and the Caribbean

01-Feb-2014•Martin Williamson

When cricket hit the West End

The game has been played in few stranger places than in the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties in St Martin's Lane

18-Jan-2014•Martin Williamson

England routed in 'a travesty of a game'

England went Down Under with great expectations in 1958, but things went downhill rapidly for them

21-Dec-2013•Martin Williamson

A near riot at Adelaide Oval

The lowest point of one of cricket's most bitter series came in Adelaide in 1933, when mounted police were needed to prevent a riot in an Ashes Test

06-Dec-2013•Martin Williamson

A barnacle on Australia's backside

Questionable spirit of cricket isn't just a modern tendency. Great players of the past also indulged in it, especially when it came to saving a Test

23-Nov-2013•Martin Williamson

When a rusty Jonathan Agnew 'got away with it'

One of the game's more unusual comebacks involved the long-time BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew

09-Nov-2013•Martin Williamson

The first-class farce

Seven years ago Zimbabwe cricket was in the same boat it is in today - financially crippled and struggling to conduct domestic tournaments

26-Oct-2013•Martin Williamson

The fastest hundred that never was

How Steve O'Shaughnessy's whirlwind knock managed to upset purists and cause controversy over the tactics used

27-Sep-2013•Martin Williamson

'A perversion of positive cricket'

The world's first one-day final still managed to upset purists and cause controversy over the tactics used

13-Sep-2013•Martin Williamson

The start of a love affair

When a one-sided one-day international at The Oval in the late summer of 1973 triggered a passion that lasts to this day

31-Aug-2013•Martin Williamson

Same Ashes, but an altogether different world

England regained the Ashes at The Oval in 1953 and 2005. But the experience of Test cricket could not have changed more in in the 52 years between the two matches

17-Aug-2013•Martin Williamson

The ball of the century

When a peroxide-blond, earring-wearing leggie turned the game of cricket on its head

02-Aug-2013•Martin Williamson

Overexposed at Lord's

When a merchant seaman stripped down to his trainers and hurdled the stumps during an Ashes Test at Lord's

20-Jul-2013•Martin Williamson

The boy who bowled Bradman

A 16-year-old schoolboy made the front pages of the national newspapers when he bowled the greatest batsman of all

28-Jun-2013•Martin Williamson

'Scared dinkum' and dead-drunk Australians

A drunk allrounder and players scared witless by a ghost provided an unsettling start to Australia's 2005 Ashes campaign

15-Jun-2013•Martin Williamson

A turkey of a tournament

The 2004 Champions Trophy 'deserved to be ranked … in the list of the Great Sporting Fiascos of our time'

01-Jun-2013•Martin Williamson

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