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In our recent quest for the top 50 cricketers of all time 109 names were put forward. In this feature Martin explains his surprise and disappointment that Stan McCabe’s wasn’t one of them.

For more than three quarters of a century their has been near unanimity amongst cricketers and the lovers of the game about Cardus being the greatest of cricket writers. Yet a few have chosen to criticise him for living in the past, “fictionalise his accounts of the game and worse. Swaranjeet takes up issue with these claims.

It appears to the writer that there is an acute shortage of “interesting questions” in the cacophony of debate about cricket’s future. Here is a start. . .

India’s recent crowning as number one Test-playing nation had some people discussing whether or not they’ve ever been number one before – CW’s Dave Wilson applies the ICC rating system retrospectively to provide an answer.

As 2009 draws to a close, the Cricket Web team look back on their favourite cricketing moments of the year.

Kennington Oval, 17th August 1954. A great bowler surveys the scene of what was, perhaps, his greatest triumph. In this feature CricketWeb tells the story of a unique victory.

We give an overall analysis of the just completed battle for the Frank Worrell Trophy with every player who took part in the series assessed.

Can today’s England selectors learn anything from a match played almost 90 years ago? Martin believes so and in this feature explains why

Sehwag is not a man deficient in technique. He has adjusted his technique to suit the aggressive intent that is the essence of his game. He does not care what we think and say about his footwork. He cares about what he does to the ball and in that his philosophy is simple and uncluttered.

Sehwag’s batting irks traditionalists and Bradman who had a similar effect on them provides us the context for understanding Sehwag’s apparent defiance of what we euphemistically call conventional wisdom or tradition.