FEATURES
The 1980s saw the West Indians cement their dominance of both forms of cricket, one apparently more skillful than the other, except for one slight hitch during the 1983 World Cup.
In this feature Martin looks back to Victorian times, and tells the story of Frederick ‘The Demon’ Spofforth
It looks promising for Afghanistan as they look to make it to their second consecutive World Cup, after Nepal’s win sends the Afghans through from Group B on net run rate. With three losses to their name, Afghanistan were ahead of Hong Kong on net run-rate and needed a big favour from Nepal in order to progress.
Following on from Lever of Lancashire English cricket had Lever of Essex, another blond seam bowler, but this time a left armer
This review of World Sports magazine looks at the edition of August 1950 in which Neville Cardus reviewed Don Bradman’s Farewell to Cricket.
A good bowler rather than a great one, Peter Lever was nonetheless one of Martin’s childhood heroes, and in this feature he tells his story
Despite the burden of a decade of Tory misrule there were some things in the 1980s that could take Martin’s thoughts away from the subject of how to change the world. Foremost amongst them was David Gower’s batting
In this feature Martin looks back at the life and times of a fine West Indian opening batsman, Jeff Stollmeyer, whose contributions at the top of the batting order were vital to the first great West Indian team
In which Neville Cardus celebrates both his birthday and the impending visit of the West Indian Test team.
It is remarkable how strong some memories remain despite the passing of almost half a century – one of Martin’s most vivid recollections is of the batting of Zaheer Abbas at Edgbaston in the summer of 1971