WG Grace

Commentators in cricket history – 6: EW “Jim” Swanton – The old reliable

A man who got the 1939 Wisden stamped as Not Subversive by the Japanese at a Prisoner of War camp, EW Swanton was one of the pioneering commentators and a regular member of the Test Match Special team.

Cricketing Rifts 20: Fall from Grace – Misdemeanours of the father of cricket

The Dhoni-Sehwag rift may have been true or blown out of proportion by the media. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game. Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket. In this episode he revisits some of the ugly confrontations during the not so innocent days of WG Grace.

Stats across eras 2: Bradman, Sobers, Tendulkar… top batsmen by decades

In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades, and finds that the career average actually does not quite lie.

Cricket writer Gideon Haigh hails Sachin Tendulkar

By CricketCountry Staff

Renowned Australian cricket writer Gideon Haigh hailed Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar as a great player capable of 'inventing’ a record.

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery — Part 5 of 10

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery is a tale of detection etched on a vast canvas. A cricket historian plays the role of an expert hired to solve an intriguing problem involving old scoring sheets, fast hundreds, modern-art masterpieces, antique wagon wheels and old Victorian letters.

From WG Grace to Don Bradman, from Rahul Dravid to Sourav Ganguly

How cricketers over the ages have pushed through the covers of the dictionaries

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery — Part 1 of 10

The Gilbert Jessop Mystery is a tale of detection etched on a vast canvas

Marcus Trescothick – no stopping this Somerset run-machine

Trescothick scored close to 300 Championship runs more than anyone else

English greats ignored in ICC’s greatest Test team

In the week when England host India at Lord's in the 2,000th Test match, there was no room for any English players in an ICC poll to decide cricket fans' greatest Test team of all time.