At just 21 David Hookes briefly lit up the Centenary Test, but never fulfilled the expectations he created. In this feature Martin looks back at his career, and his tragic death in 2004.
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110 years ago Fred Tate failed to hold a catch on which the loss of the Ashes was blamed. CW’s Dave Wilson looks into the story behind what has come to be known as “Tate’s Match”.
After Gareth’s reappraisal of West Indies tour of England in 1980 Martin looks back at the return encounter that took place in the Caribbean less than a year later.
With World Series Cricket disbanded,West Indies made their first post-Packer tour to England in 1980. Gareth Bland reappraises the tour.
Following the interest shown in “Racial Slur or Misunderstanding?” we are now able to publish what was, for David Frith, his final word on the controversy.
In this feature Martin takes a brief look at the careers of Lance and Chris Cairns, and in particular Chris’s recent trip to the High Court in London.
In this follow-up to last week’s feature on Fry’s cricket career, Dave looks at Fry’s batsmanship in detail to try and discover why he was found wanting in Tests.
In this feature Martin takes a long hard look at the career of Mike Brearley in order to come up with his own answer to a question upon which many have firm views, both for and against.
In front of a packed Lord’s Nat West semi-final crowd in 1983, Ian Botham rescued Somerset from almost certain defeat in one of his finest innings. Gareth Bland looks back on one of the all-rounder’s greatest performances and one of the tournament’s most unlikely finishes
In this feature, with the assistance of those at the eye of the storm, Martin revisits a cricketing controversy from 1995.