With Warwickshire winners of this year’s County Championship, David Mutton revisits their first triumph in 1911.
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The game moves on, and wicketkeepers come and go. Alan Knott last played for England more than thirty years ago but, for Martin, he is still the best there has been.
Gareth Bland recalls one of the most fascinating limited overs tournaments of the 1980s. Only one week long, the Perth Challenge featured England, Australia, Pakistan and West Indies.
In this feature Martin tells the remarkable story of Sydney Barnes, a true all time great.
In a not dissimilar piece to that concerning Archie Jackson, in this feature Martin looks at the equally short life of another very promising young Australian batsman, Karl Schneider.
Had he ever enjoyed full fitness, and not died at such a tragically early age, Archie Jackson would surely have gone on to be one of the great batsmen.
With South Africa now at the summit of the international game, Gareth Bland looks back to the country’s darkest episode since its re-admittance to the fold almost twenty-one years ago
In this feature Martin ends his tribute to the three Ws with a look at the life and times of the last survivor of the famous trio.
New Zealand’s greatest ever batsman turns 50 today. Gareth Bland pays homage and recalls Martin Crowe’s maiden Test hundred.
Clyde Walcott was, by a few months, the youngest of the three Ws. He was the second of them to be knighted. In this feature Martin tells his story.