Wally Hammond
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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View ArticleA half-century of defeats, and five-fors against everyone
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How the record for the highest score in Test cricket has changed hands over the years
View ArticleThe 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
View ArticleTight Ashes Tests
A look back to ten of the closest finishes between cricket's oldest rivals, England and Australia
View ArticleWhen time really dragged
England and Kent legspinner Doug Wright recalls a famous and gruelling match in Durban in 1938-39
View ArticleLord's under attack
Martin Williamson looks back at how Lord's survived the Second World War
View ArticleKnowing when to call it a day
We look at XI instances where retirement - or staying retired - would have been the best option
View ArticleJardine spares England's blushes
The report from The Cricketer in India's first Test, against England at Lord's in June 1932
View ArticleBodyline timeline - July - October 1932
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... July to October 1932
View ArticleBodyline timeline - November 1932
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... November 1932
View ArticleBodyline timeline - December 1932
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... December 1932
View ArticleBodyline timeline - January 1933
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... January 1933
View ArticleHammond at his best
A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC tour game against Victoria
View ArticleRain spares MCC after Nagel's heroics
A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's second tour game against an Australian XI
View ArticleMCC outclass New South Wales
A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's tour game against New South Wales
View ArticleLarwood - and Bodyline's - last hurrah
A match report from The Cricketer of the 5th Test at the SCG
View ArticleBodyline timeline - February 1933
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... February 1933
View ArticleBodyline timeline - March to May 1933
A day-by-day account of the 1932-33 Bodyline series ... the final exchanges
View ArticleMore hitting out of the park
A look at another 11 cricketers who enjoyed taking the aerial route
View ArticleWelcome back, we weren't expecting you
Eleven players who made a return to the fold after their time had appeared to have passed by
View ArticleEngland 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
View ArticleEverlasting 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
View ArticleStalemate 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
View ArticleWhen 10 days were not enough
A first-hand account of the famous timeless Test in Durban 70 years ago
View ArticlePietersen makes all-time England XI
One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side
View ArticleWally 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
View ArticleIn 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
View ArticleThe 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
View Article'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
View ArticleWhy, Wally, why
The sad match in which one the game's greatest batsmen could barely get the ball off the square
View ArticleWhen 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
View ArticleA victory for cricket
Within days of World War II ending, England and Australia were meeting at Lord's
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View ArticleWho 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
View ArticleStats - 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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And what's the lowest all-out total in a Test without a duck?
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