Dave Wilson proposes a new way to look at domestic performance, focussing on the English County Championship during various eras.
In light of Peter Roebuck’s recent suicide, and Martin’s current feature about David Bairstow, I have compiled a list of 10 fine cricketers who have taken their own lives.
After England’s double batting failure in Dubai there will doubtless be some who will champion the cause of Jonny Bairstow. In this feature Martin remembers his father, a cult hero if ever there was one.
In light of the continuing controversy over DRS I have been discussing the subject with my old friend, David Frith
In a BBC project first broadcast in 2002 Sir Winston Churchill was voted into first place in a poll to establish the 100 greatest Britons. Martin’s latest feature suggests that his vote might have gone elsewhere.
There is nothing like a 3-1 Ashes victory in Australia to help an Englishman forget the world’s economic woes. In this feature Martin tells the story of the man who made that scoreline possible in 1954/55.
Australian cricket has always produced some larger than life characters. In this feature Martin takes a look at the story of one of the most colourful of them.
Towards the end of last year we shared some top moments picked solely by me, This year we wanted to do it differently and decided to pick the top moment of our CW staff members. Three Englishmen, an Irishman, a Kiwi and an Indian contributed to this exercise and relived their top moments of the year in their own words. Ofcourse the English were overjoyed with the Ashes, the Indian whitewash and county cricket, the Irishman with the defeat of England in the World Cup, the Kiwi was elated with beating Australia and for the Indian fan winning the world cup was the ultimate Nirvana. Here is the list in no particular order.