CMJ's top 25

Christopher Martin-Jenkins is leaving The Times and, as a parting gift to his many fans, he lists 25 of his favourite moments covering the sport.

1981

Headingley. This has to be the Dom Perignon 2000. The match that England could not win but did. Ian Botham's wonderfully free-spirited innings and Bob Willis's sensational fast bowling on a horribly tricky pitch on the last day. As in 2005, the matches that followed, at Edgbaston and Old Trafford, were scarcely less inspiring.

1985

Edgbaston in glorious weather and more Aussie bashing. David Gower in supreme form, ten wickets in the match for Richard Ellison, and Edmonds and Emburey in harness.