Next month Garry Sobers will turn 80, and it will be exactly half a century since he led West Indies to victory against England with a peerless allround performance. In this feature Martin tells the story of that Test series

Thanks to forum members Watson, Red Hill and the big bambino for this feature and the next – here we discuss the opinion of Stephen Jay Gould that high averages are becoming unachievable.

All feel good movies are designed to have happy endings. They follow a fairly formulaic structure – a beginning that sets the context, a little turbulence in the middle to add some mandatory suspense to the proceedings and the end when everything and everyone comes together and all is right with the world. Cool Runnings […]

A record of the publishable parts of a conversation between a real Lancastrian Test cricketer, and a man who is only an ersatz Lancastrian, and whose cricketing career was just about as ordinary as it is possible to be