As England’s World T20 campaign unexpectedly takes off Martin recalls a cricketer from the 1970s who, in his prime, would have relished the game’s shortest format
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the first of two unofficial tours by a team of West Indian cricketers to apartheid South Africa – were they judged too harshly?
The best “chinaman” bowler the game of cricket has seen is also a one of the sport’s most interesting characters. In this feature Martin tells his story
There are just a few cricketers who need no introduction, and a certain Yorkshire born fast bowler is one. In this feature Martin records his impressions of one of the greats
So wrote Clive Taylor in The Sun after David Steele’s Test debut. In this feature Martin tells the story of the man who salvaged some English pride after a drubbing by Australia