With more comebacks than Frank Sinatra, Ted Dexter kept the back pages in business for almost forty years. In this feature Martin looks back at his life and times.
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Three years ago, England were on top of the world. Ashes holders after an impressive win away from home, they had a settled unit pushing ever-closer towards the #1 Test ranking. But in 2014, the Ashes have been surrendered, the team is fragmented, and the slide down the rankings has been dramatic. Dan McGrath looks at what went wrong.
What were the reasons for pre-tournament favourites Australia being bundled out of the T20 World Cup well before the semi-final stages?
Gareth Bland assesses Sir Richard Hadlee’s Test match record against West Indies.
In this feature we look at the next group of 500 players, taking us from Test debuts made between 1955 and 1976.
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
As England’s selectors look around the counties for their number three for this summer’s Tests, let us hope they manage to find a man like Clive Radley
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?
Relations didn’t improve any between England and Pakistan after the “Mother-in-law” of all tours, as Martin reminds us in this feature
Series between England and Pakistan are almost always controversial, for one reason or another. Thirty years on David looks back at Sir Beefy’s infamous faux pas