Six of CricketWeb’s feature writers have contributed to Patrick Ferriday’s latest book, Masterly Batting. In this first of three extracts Martin and Dave are featured.
Dave Wilson - ARTICLES
How does the recent Trent Bridge Test rank in terms of drama as compared to the most dramatic Tests in cricket history? Dave Wilson looks into it
As an enthralling first Ashes Test, which has swung first one way then the other, draws to a close, Dave looks at previous Ashes nailbiters.
George Lohmann’s Test bowling average is significantly lower than every other bowler – but was he so dominant as to have been ‘Bradmanesque’?
Dave Wilson takes a look at the ICC Player Ratings as a means of identifying the greatest ever batsmen.
Dave Wilson investigates if it’s possible to assess individual contributions to wins, using as an example one of the greatest ever Test matches.
Dave Wilson returns to Series Points to right a grievous wrong.
This week one of the best writers on the game appears for the first time on CW – and yes the accompanying image is of the somewhat unusual dust jacket of the first edition.
On 12 June 1868 an Aboriginal eleven strode onto the turf at Lord’s to face the MCC, fully ten years before white Australian cricketers ever did. Dave Wilson tells the remarkable story behind the first cricket tour of England by an Australian side.
An assessment of the career batting impact for Bradman and Lara.