England have to address a worrying trend in their overseas form – their over-reliance on James Anderson and Stuart Broad. Anderson was the Three Lions’ one shining light in the Ashes, maintaining his levels of excellence as his teammates crumbled around him. Broad was off colour in Australia, but rounded back into form in New Zealand with two solid outings.

As a breed fast bowlers generally seem to be much more interesting characters than those who specialise in other cricketing disciplines. Pakistan’s 1970s paceman Sarfraz Nawaz is a typical example

You must look at the context of each heavy defeat in cricket, and in the case of Australia there is a lot of context, but the drubbing handed out by South Africa in the fourth Test in Johannesburg was historical. In terms of the 492 runs, it was the fourth biggest margin of defeat in […]

Dave looks at batting impact in general and attempts to set the record straight as regards Victor Trumper.

It is more than forty years since West Indies were able to field a top class spin bowler and it seems unlikely that situation will change in the near future. In this feature Martin profiles the last man to merit the description

After telling the story of Frederick Spofforth last week Martin now turns his attention to his successors, Charlie ‘The Terror’ Turner and JJ Ferris

The 1980s saw the West Indians cement their dominance of both forms of cricket, one apparently more skillful than the other, except for one slight hitch during the 1983 World Cup.

In this feature Martin looks back to Victorian times, and tells the story of Frederick ‘The Demon’ Spofforth

It looks promising for Afghanistan as they look to make it to their second consecutive World Cup, after Nepal’s win sends the Afghans through from Group B on net run rate. With three losses to their name, Afghanistan were ahead of Hong Kong on net run-rate and needed a big favour from Nepal in order to progress.

Following on from Lever of Lancashire English cricket had Lever of Essex, another blond seam bowler, but this time a left armer