Nuggets
Mind the wind, Tugga
The 28th man goes too far
Cricket
I only shake hands with fast bowlers
Shane Warne
93 'til infinity
Shane Warne started his first Ashes tour as a relative unknown. By the end, England’s batsmen knew quite enough about him
The Real Quiz
Name the 29 players England used in the 1989 Ashes
And you wonder why Australia won 4-0
The Ashes
There goes the fear
The genesis of England’s glorious 2005 Ashes victory was a 47-minute cameo three years earlier
Joe Root
Forever young
Ten of Joe Root's best innings
West Indies
The whiff of danger
England went to the Caribbean in 1986 fancying their chances of an historic victory. A terrifying festival of chin music in Jamaica disabused them of the notion
1999 World Cup
A vile technicality
The 1999 World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa was a white-ball Test match with a twist that even Hitchcock would have deemed too cruel
Cricket
This is a low
46 all out and all that
West Indies
Form is permanent
During their 1992-93 tour of Australia, West Indies were on the brink of losing their long unbeaten run. Curtly Ambrose wasn't having that
Cricket
Let me be your fantasy
In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often