Miscellaneous

Ricky Ponting was nursing a black eye and promising to seek help for a drinking problem Thursday after a bar-room punch that brought new embarrassment for Australian cricket

Born James Chrysostom Boucher, but known universally in Irish Cricket as Jimmy, his sudden death in Spain on Christmas Day brought to an end the life of one of, if not indeed the, greatest of Irish cricketers

The opening day of an Ashes series is always heavy with tension but after all the hype and speculation as to who would land the first blow in cricket's longest-running feud, it was actually a bit of let-down

Mark Nicholas, the Hampshire captain, is retiring at the end of this season and becoming a full-time cricket journalist

One of the rarest of all cricket books, The Log of the Old Un from Liverpool to San Francisco 1886, was "Printed for Private Circulation" at Exeter in that same year

A dummy's guide to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

They said what? Quotes from the two-year existence of World Series Cricket

Steven Price mingles with the crowd at the second ODI between Zimbabwe and West Indies

Cricket and politics, or should that be, politicians who love cricket, have been synonymous with Western democracies

Grahame Parker, who has died aged 83, was a formidable Cambridge allround sportsman of the 1930s and an England full-back as well as university cricket captain and rugby Blue all four years

In 1958 the great Australian leg-break and googly bowler, Arthur Mailey, published his memoirs, entitled 10 for 66 And All That

The finest batsman in cricket history broke his television silence yesterday. EW Swanton, who watched 'the Don' in his prime, gives his assessment

This week's Test against India at Lord`s marks 100 years since a memorable victory against Australia, writes E. W. Swanton

Two batsmen associated with Surrey`s ascendancy in the 1950s, Bernie Constable and Geoffrey Whittaker, have died, aged respectively 76 and 80

Arthur Jepson, who has died aged 82, bowled for Nottinghamshire for two summers before the war and 14 after it

THE traditional sign of advancing years comes when policemen start to look younger, but for me it is when county cricketers suddenly seem to be in the flower of their youth

High celebrations are afoot at Cambridge this weekend to mark the 150th anniversary of Fenner's

Death has snatched from our midst a walking encyclopaedia of cricket, Matin Siddiqi

"Indignation is the highest form of love," So wrote George Sand, the French all-rounder, more than 100 years ago