Neil Harvey said he was virtually unplayable. Frank Tyson said he was "like Bedser, only better". Remembering Pakistan's first great bowler, Fazal Mahmood

Commentators spend a lot of time discussing bowling speeds but a machine can't tell us how fast a batsman considers a bowler to be

The legendary fast bowlers are celebrated, as they must be, but many others played a part in the team's supremacy

Is the alternative Ashes trophy that came into existence in 1982-83 still around to be handed to the winning team?

From the mid 1890s until the First World War, the Philadelphia Gentlemen could match the world's best sides. All thanks to Bart King

Are players' injuries treated better now than in the past or are they simply managed more conservatively?

In England in 1966, he glowed with the bat and toiled with the ball in a comprehensive win, but were his efforts better than Imran's against India in 1982-83?

Botham's 1981 Ashes has been enshrined in legend, but was it the greatest all-round performance in a single series?

Hanif Mohammad almost single-handedly carried Pakistan's batting in their early days as a Test nation

In part two of the search for India's first great batsman, we look at two run-accumulators who shared the same first name

In part one, a look at three Indian-born batsmen who went on to achieve glory in other countries

Aboriginals make up only a small percentage of Australia's cricketers, raising questions about the board's track record in terms of player integration

Michael Turner, the Midlands Knockout Competition, and the origin of the limited-overs format

It may not be a rivalry as storied as the Ashes, but it has lasted just as long

Today any failed selection is called a blunder. But back in 1890, in a case of mistaken identity, Australia picked a batsman as their reserve gloveman for the tour of England

Which is the best-ever team from Zimbabwe? The obvious answer would be the 1998 side that won a series in Pakistan but, pre-independence, Rhodesia were a powerful force in South African domestic cricket

The Australian cricketers of 1956-57 were not so keen to tour India as they are today but that first encounter was memorable for a number of reasons