HERBERT VIVIAN HORDEN, the first Australian googly bowler, the greatest triumph of whose short Test career took place 100 years ago this month was the first in a line of great performers stretching to Shane Warne... [More]

Yet he was a magnificent all round cricketer, arguably the best never to play in a Test Match for his native Australia - or indeed any other country - and later had a huge influence on the development of Indian cricket in India... [More]

This is, by any estimation, a remarkable book... [More]

He then embarked upon a remarkable, even for him, display of batting. Favouring the pull shot, even to balls around or outside off stump, he nevertheless was fluent all round the wicket... [More]

Albert Ernest Edward Volger has not been over kindly treated by historians. Apart from David Frith, writers of books about great bowlers, have tended to ignore him. Wisden at least has done him justice. In 2007, seeking to back date its new seasonal feature "The Outstanding Cricketer in the World" it established a panel of experts to make the award for years gone by. Volger was the unanimous choice for 1907... [More]

HARRY HOLLINGSWORTH FORSYTH died in Dublin on 19 July 2004 but his death escaped the notice of the cricket media at the time... [More]

One hundred years ago this summer, the first ever Indian team representative of all sections of the country, toured Britain and Ireland... [More]

The Life and Times of JEP McMaster By Edward Liddle... [More]

Our series on players with an Associate or Affiliate background who made Ashes history concludes with a look at the man generally reckoned to have been one of the most popular Test cricketers of all time... [More]

As the fate of The Ashes has now been decided those of our readers who are in a state of collective mourning for Mr Ponting and Co may take some comfort from the profile which follows as our series on English and Australian players with an Associate or Affiliate background continues... [More]