New Zealand’s greatest ever batsman turns 50 today. Gareth Bland pays homage and recalls Martin Crowe’s maiden Test hundred.

Clyde Walcott was, by a few months, the youngest of the three Ws. He was the second of them to be knighted. In this feature Martin tells his story.

Over the next few days we will be featuring the stories of that legendary triumverate of Barbadian batsmen, the three Ws – Martin begins with Sir Frank Worrell.

More than a century ago a team from Philadelphia came to England with high hopes. David Mutton examines that team and what became of their ambitions.

As Glenn McGrath recently took charge of the MRF foundation I was reminded of the day, a quarter of a century ago, when his illustrious predecessor first took up the post.

With the T20 2012 World Cup days away, here is CW’s list of eight players who we think will set the tournament alight.

Seven years on from an earlier article on the state of wicketkeeping in the world game, Neil Pickup returns to the question of glovework, and wonders what the future holds for a position that never seems to be far from a talking point.

We interviewed Irish allrounder Kevin O’Brien on the eve of the T20 World Cup going into all the parts of his cricketing career to date.

The Fantasy Cricket competition for the Twenty20 World Cup
2012 has been created and is ready for the entry of your team.

In the wake of the England captain’s recent retirement from all forms of the game Martin reflects on the news, and draws a few parallels with a previous holder of that esteemed office.