Integrity is an important characteristic for an Ashes captain and as Martin explains in this feature none have had more of that than Bill Woodfull
Although he played his Test cricket for the country of his birth for Martin and his contemporaries Farokh Engineer will always be as much a part of Lancashire as the Red Rose itself
Following on from Martin’s piece on Seymour Nurse, Dave looks at other great swansongs and how Nurse measures up against them.
Still the last England captain to win back the Ashes on Australian soil, Martin looks back at the life and career of Ray Illingworth
On a recent visit to England for the Lord’s Test Barry Richards took time out of his schedule to talk to us, and has also made available a couple of copies of his autobiography to CW visitors
Gareth Bland compares the Test careers of those two all-time great opening batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Geoffrey Boycott.
In this feature Martin tells the story of Seymour Nurse, one of those fine West Indian batsmen whose legacy is hidden behind the mighty reputation of Garry Sobers