When is a Test Match not a Test Match? In this feature Martin looks back to the English summer of 1970 and the cricket played by one of the strongest teams the world has seen.
With depression hitting cricketers often with the public unaware, Ewan looks at specific examples of players hit by the ilness, and explores why cricket seems to be a common sport for depression sufferers.
In the wake of the imprisonment of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif Martin looks back at the old controversy involving Shane Warne and Mark Waugh.
In 1990 England’s Chris Lewis had the world at his feet, but within twenty years the bottom had fallen out of that world. In this feature Martin looks at his story.
New Zealand approached the first test against Australia having had the better of a drawn lead up match against Australia A and having pasted the home side’s young pace men at Allan Border Oval the week before the Gabba outing.
The three match series was business as usual for India while for the West Indies it provided hope for the future.Here are the ratings of the two teams from Cricket Web.
These days England’s selectors and Team Management seem to do a thoroughly professional job. It wasn’t always so. In this feature Martin examines the case of Robin Smith, aka The Judge.