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As the 2016 Sri Lankans leave England after a slightly disappointing visit Martin looks back to the first time the country’s cricketers made an impact here

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

The biggest hitters have always been popular, and their reputations tend to resonate down the years. In recent times however the game seems to have forgotten Big Jim Smith, an oversight Martin hopes this feature will put right

My opinion on the top five fielding teams in Limited overs cricket since the inception of the format

Few cricketers have entertained in the way that Mike Procter did – in this feature Martin tells his story

Yorkshire cricket has never been short of colourful characters and controversial ones – Johnny Wardle was both – in this feature Martin tells his bittersweet story

My forum user name, chasingthedon, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that Don Bradman is lauded as the greatest cricketer ever, despite the fact that there was never really a way to compare him directly with bowlers and all-rounders. Now there is….