At the pinnacle of his career as a bowler in 1983, Imran Khan suffered a career-threatening stress fracture of the shin. What might have happened had he stayed fit and his improving Pakistan team toured the Caribbean that spring?
Some staff members are nothing if not predictable, and as soon as we heard that Martin had been revisiting his childhood haunts it was obvious what sort of feature would follow.
In the wake of the success of enoyed by Australia’s Big Bash CricketWeb’s Cameron Burge asks the inevitable question.
Following up on Martin’s piece on Frank Tyson, Dave looks at Tyson’s astonishing second innings performance and asks if he was truly unique in this regard.
Yorkshiremen in the 1930s believed, not without cause, that Don Bradman was Bill Bowes’ bunny. In this feature Martin takes a look at the life and times of a man who was more than just a quick bowler.
Bradman’s Invincibles are rightly lauded as the strongest team ever to tour England. Did they however represent the very best Australia had to offer? In this feature Martin explains why he thinks not.
Great fast bowlers are born and not made. Englishman John Snow was one of the best and, argues Martin, deserves to be much more fondly remembered than he is.