Over the next few days we will be featuring the stories of that legendary triumverate of Barbadian batsmen, the three Ws – Martin begins with Sir Frank Worrell.
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More than a century ago a team from Philadelphia came to England with high hopes. David Mutton examines that team and what became of their ambitions.
With the T20 2012 World Cup days away, here is CW’s list of eight players who we think will set the tournament alight.
Seven years on from an earlier article on the state of wicketkeeping in the world game, Neil Pickup returns to the question of glovework, and wonders what the future holds for a position that never seems to be far from a talking point.
We interviewed Irish allrounder Kevin O’Brien on the eve of the T20 World Cup going into all the parts of his cricketing career to date.
In the wake of the England captain’s recent retirement from all forms of the game Martin reflects on the news, and draws a few parallels with a previous holder of that esteemed office.
The England selectors will soon have to turn their minds to the trip to India this winter, but are unlikely to make the same decisions their predecessors did 40 years ago. In this feature David Taylor recalls the 1972/73 series.
One of the most celebrated and elegant batsmen of the modern era retired from international cricket this week. Gareth Bland examines the appeal of VVS Laxman.
Being an England supporter has never been easy. There have always been ups and downs, often difficult to foresee, and the Ashes summer of 1997 is a classic example. In this feature Martin remembers the early part of that series.
To his devotees the greatest all-round cricketer since Sobers; to his critics a flat-track bully who fails to dominate against the best. Gareth Bland examines the extraordinary career of Jacques Kallis.