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

The felling of a tailender by Bob Willis triggered the acceptance that helmets were needed in the game

The tale of a man who took 4 for 49 and was promptly arrested for deserting the army

Fifty years ago, an effort to bring crowds back to cricket led to the birth of a new format

In 1903, the English county season got off to a start with a match between London County and Surrey. But the match, which featured WG Grace and Bangalore Jayaram, was played amid sleet and snow showers

In 1969-70 Australia won their series in India: a battle between spinners and batsmen, played against a background of widespread violence

When two Hyderabad schoolboys smashed a record set 18 years earlier by Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli

West Indies cricket hit a new low in November 1998 when the captain and his squad refused to travel to South Africa

The nadir of Geoff Boycott's brief time as England captain came when he was deliberately run out by one of his own side

When Beefy was told he had the 'looks, build and accent' to be the next 007

When New Zealand set an unwelcome Test record that still stands almost 60 years later

When an injury-ravaged England were so short they almost had to send for Henry Blofeld

When a discarded strip of gauze threatened to derail a series

Fifty years ago this month the distinction between amateurs and professionals was finally abolished and they all become simply 'cricketers'

Fifteen Parsees toured England in 1886, and though the results weren't great, they were well received

They were the slowest country to embrace the one-day game, but they more than made up for it in the years that followed

When an outburst of petulance led him to do things he regretted years later

As the England opener showed, there are occasions when the score itself is less important than the way the runs are accumulated

At the end of a wet summer, we look back to an even wetter one, and the death of a visionary idea

The day the game of cricket was changed forever