Over the years South Africa have developed something of a reputation for falling at the final hurdle. In this feature Martin tries to pinpoint when the bad habit began.
Next Wednesday we will be reviewing Wisden 2011, due for release the following day – in the meantime Martin has been reading about one of cricket’s more interesting characters.
The passing of Peter Loader last week took from us another England player of the 1950s. In this feature Martin looks back at a career that deserves to be better remembered than it is.
England saw all too little of a fit and firing Shoaib Akhtar – Martin looks back at what we did see of a man whose bowling he would have liked to have seen more of.
After a patchy showing in the World Cup so far there can be no better way for England fans to brighten up a grey March day than by reading Gideon Haigh on the magical events of Boxing Day 2010.