Cricket

In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often

Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.

Dead-rubber wins can taste just as sweet as the real thing - sometimes even sweeter

And you wonder why Australia won 4-1

Ten of Joe Root's best innings

The genesis of England’s glorious 2005 Ashes victory was a 47-minute cameo three years earlier

The 28th man goes too far

And you wonder why Australia won 4-0

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