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WALTER REGINALD HAMMOND, than whom no one of recent years has more abundantly fulfilled his early promise, was born at Dover on June 19, 1903

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Average century score in test cricket

Scoring a century has always been a great achievement in Test cricket

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Double centuries in consecutive matches

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The two-day Test

All Today's Yesterdays - August 18 down the years August 17 | August 19 2000 An unforgettable victory for England at Headingley , and the first twoday Test in over 50 years

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Partnerships of 300, and scoring 900 Down Under

The column where we answer your questions

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A half-century of defeats, and five-fors against everyone

The column where we answer your questions

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The highest score in Test cricket

How the record for the highest score in Test cricket has changed hands over the years

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The Way It Was

Alan Townsend relives with Stephen Chalke his 130-mile round trip by bike as a 12-year-old to see the Headingley Test of 1934

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Tight Ashes Tests

A look back to ten of the closest finishes between cricket's oldest rivals, England and Australia

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Walter Hammond - A Cricketing Great

Of any great cricketer, statistics show only part

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When time really dragged

England and Kent legspinner Doug Wright recalls a famous and gruelling match in Durban in 1938-39

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Lord's under attack

Martin Williamson looks back at how Lord's survived the Second World War

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Chasing the big numbers

Fazeer Mohammed tracks the prolific batting periods in history

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Knowing when to call it a day

We look at XI instances where retirement - or staying retired - would have been the best option

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Jardine spares England's blushes

The report from The Cricketer in India's first Test, against England at Lord's in June 1932

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Bodyline timeline - July - October 1932

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... July to October 1932

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Bodyline timeline - November 1932

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... November 1932

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Bodyline timeline - December 1932

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... December 1932

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Bodyline timeline - January 1933

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... January 1933

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Hammond at his best

A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC tour game against Victoria

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Rain spares MCC after Nagel's heroics

A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's second tour game against an Australian XI

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Awesome England go one up

A match report from The Cricketer of the 1st Test at Sydney

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MCC outclass New South Wales

A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's tour game against New South Wales

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Larwood - and Bodyline's - last hurrah

A match report from The Cricketer of the 5th Test at the SCG

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Bodyline timeline - February 1933

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... February 1933

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Bodyline timeline - March to May 1933

A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... the final exchanges

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More hitting out of the park

A look at another 11 cricketers who enjoyed taking the aerial route

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Hammond's Test triple

When Wally Hammond blitzed a remarkable triple hundred

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Welcome back, we weren't expecting you

Eleven players who made a return to the fold after their time had appeared to have passed by

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From Grace to Hick

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

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Dated data

A book on allrounders that brings together well-known facts and stats

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England face massive first-innings deficit

Cricinfo reports on the fourth day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

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Everlasting Test goes down to the wire

Cricinfo reports on the ninth day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

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Stalemate in the Timeless Test

Cricinfo reports on the tenth and final day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

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When 10 days were not enough

A first-hand account of the famous timeless Test in Durban 70 years ago

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Old gold

England's all-time team has just two players from the last 30 years

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Pietersen makes all-time England XI

One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side

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Wally Hammond: the greatest ... bar one

If it weren't for one thing, we could today be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the greatest batsman of all time

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In the shadow of the Don

The only batsman who could better Hammond's prolific run-making and his supreme skills on sticky wickets was Bradman

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The lonely colossus

Solitary and often moody, Hammond was England's giant in the age of Bradman, and his figures bear testament to a career of mammoth achievements

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'A fine ****ing way to start a series'

Few tours have got off to a more controversial and acrimonious start than the first post-war Ashes series

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Why, Wally, why

The sad match in which one the game's greatest batsmen could barely get the ball off the square

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When a rusty Jonathan Agnew 'got away with it'

One of the game's more unusual comebacks involved the long-time BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew

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A victory for cricket

Within days of World War II ending, England and Australia were meeting at Lord's

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Which match in Australia featured eight umpires over three days?

And which bowler has taken the most wickets for a single IPL team?

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Who has top-scored more often in Tests - Kohli or Root?

Virat Kohli has top-scored for India in four out of six innings in the Test series so far, and that streak puts him among the all-time toppers in the list of batsmen who have top-scored most often

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Stats - England's winning streak in SL, and Root second only to Hammond

Stats highlights from England's convincing series win in Sri Lanka

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When was the last time someone bowled four or more maidens in an ODI?

And what's the lowest all-out total in a Test without a duck?

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