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The ignorant Olympians

In 1900, Great Britain won the only Olympic cricket tournament to have been held - but they were totally unaware they had even competed in the Games

28-Jul-2012•Martin Williamson

When politics killed a tour

The planned 1970 South Africa tour of England divided the cricketing world, and left many grounds vandalised or surrounded with barbed wire

14-Jul-2012•Martin Williamson

721 all out... in a day

Essex were the only county to bowl the 1948 Australians out, and what's more they did so in a day - but not before the tourists had amassed a world record score

30-Jun-2012•Martin Williamson

Bad blood, balls and botches

What was supposed to be a fence-mending series between England and Pakistan in 1992 proved to be anything but

16-Jun-2012•Martin Williamson

Swinging in the Jubilee rain

Thirty-five years ago, a weather-marred farce at The Oval

01-Jun-2012•Martin Williamson

Bomb threat stops play

When a hoax call led to thousands of spectators taking to the outfield at Lord's while the ground was searched

18-May-2012•Martin Williamson

Cricket's most exclusive club

As Nick Compton closes in on becoming only the ninth batsman to score 1000 runs before the end of May, we look back to when two did it within four days of each other

05-May-2012•Martin Williamson

Death on a summer's day

In a week where a county moaned about the state of the pitch at Lord's, we look back to the day a batsman was killed on the same ground

21-Apr-2012•Martin Williamson

WG Grace's chilly farewell

An early-season game at The Oval in freezing cold over a century ago marked the exit of one of cricket's great legends

06-Apr-2012•Martin Williamson

The birth of a nation

We look back to the day Sri Lanka became the eighth country to play Test cricket

24-Mar-2012•Martin Williamson

If it ain't fixed...

As Mervyn Westfield heads to prison, we look back at when the first claims of match-fixing in English domestic cricket emerged

18-Feb-2012•Martin Williamson

Giving nothing away

Those who claim cricket in the old days was dull need not look further back than the opening Test between India and England in 1963-64 for evidence

04-Feb-2012•Martin Williamson

A Test hundred with a hangover

Garry Sobers starred in an innings victory after a night (and some of the day) about the town

21-Jan-2012•Martin Williamson

It began in Sydney

Pakistan cricket's rise in modern times can be traced back to a landmark win in Australia 35 years ago

17-Dec-2011•Saad Shafqat

The speedboat and the toes

Touring the Caribbean is a far from easy affair for cricketers, but Fred Titmus returned home more mangled than most

03-Dec-2011•Martin Williamson

Captains galore

India's selectors during the 1958-59 series against West Indies spent more time on political infighting than addressing the team's problems

19-Nov-2011•Martin Williamson

Test cricket's first gambling victim

England's wicketkeeper was missing from the first Test ever in 1877 because he had been arrested after a fight caused by gambling on a game he was umpiring

05-Nov-2011•Martin Williamson

The tour that never was

England were scheduled to tour India in 1939-40 and the squad had been named. Then other events took over

22-Oct-2011•Martin Williamson

Why, Wally, why

The sad match in which one the game's greatest batsmen could barely get the ball off the square

08-Oct-2011•Martin Williamson

When the game became too much

At the time of year when players call it quits, we look back to one whose retirement came midway through a match

23-Sep-2011•Martin Williamson

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