Test cricket hasn’t always been a young man’s game, even in Australia, and in this feature Martin takes a look at the life and times of one of the oldest men to have appeared on the game’s biggest stage

In this feature Martin goes back well over a hundred years to tell the stories of two Lancashire batsmen, an opium addict and the famous poem that binds them together

It is now more than a quarter of a century since the South Africa was readmitted to Test cricket. In this feature Martin looks back at a fascinating match that, for a while, threatened one of the biggest shocks in the history of the game

In this feature Martin looks back at the life and times of Sydney Barnes’ nemesis, the South African batsman Herbie Taylor