Gareth Bland looks back at a promising Test career sadly curtailed by injury: the Australian batsman Martin Kent played just three times, all in Botham’s Ashes summer of 1981
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Statistically he is the second best batsman ever to emerge from Australia, yet Bill Ponsford is rarely referred to as one of the greats. In this feature Martin tells his story.
Interest in the Bodyline tour is as strong as ever, but in truth the next Ashes series lost little in comparison, even though it is seldom now recalled. In this feature Martin tells the story of the 1936/37 Tests.
Cricket has often generated lucrative work for the legal profession. In this feature Martin looks back at the veritable feeding frenzy that Kerry Packer created.