Test cricket has gone through all sorts of transformations since 1877, but it has never lost its ability to be the most magical of all sports

A new biography of Charles Bannerman seeks to explore why his cricketing peak was brief and lonely

A look back to the first game in cricket's premier format

If Tom Horan rings a bell at all today, it is as a name in the very first Test in 1877, and on the Australians' inaugural tour of England a year later

We apologise but the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack of 1878 did not carry a report of this match.