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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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