In this feature Martin tells the story of Johnny Douglas, an old fashioned amateur who played the game harder than most professionals
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His is a forgotten name today, but had Cyril Walters chosen cricket rather than the love of his life the history of English cricket in the late 1930s might read rather differently
Siva Ananth writes about sharing the men’s room with the Indian cricket team and the most famous cricketer on the planet knowing him by name
Had he lived Conrad Hunte would be celebrating his 88th birthday today. In this feature Martin tells the story of his life and times
When David Warner won the Allan Border Medal for best annual Australian male player earlier this year, it led to bemusement and mocking from certain quarters as he won despite a disastrous Ashes tour of England. It just seemed to be rewarding him for being a home-track Test bully while everyone ignored his record overseas. […]
Almost certainly the finest bowler never to have won a Test cap, in this feature Martin looks at the life and times of the South African fast medium bowler
In this feature Martin looks at the lives of the Gilligan brothers, mainly Ashes captain Arthur, but with a nod to Frank and Harold as well
In this feature Martin remembers Colin Croft, the sometimes overlooked member of the early West Indian pace quartets
The story of the Ellis Park Test between New Zealand and South Africa at Christmas 1953 is a well worn one, but it loses little in the retelling
In this feature, his first for a while, Martin looks at the life and times of Graeme Pollock