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The Gabba has been Australia’s happy hunting ground since 1946, including 12 wins in Ashes contests. It has also been the location for four English victories. This article names a team for each nation, comprising players who recorded outstanding personal performances there. The 22 performances would make for a magnificent game of cricket. The Australian […]

Like every serious sports fan, I consider myself a better selector than the people who actually do the job. When it comes to the English cricket team, I’m probably right, in red-ball cricket at least, because their selection policy has kept their team perennially second rate despite all its inherent advantages (money, pinching the cream […]

He was also a hard-hitting batsman and as a fielder he became known as 'The Claw' for his ability to catch impossible balls

This article documents those rare occasions when a captain’s decision to insert Australia paid off handsomely. It therefore balances out the series’ preceding Part 1 Who gives a toss? Part 1: When sending Australia in paid off (or so it seemed) and Part 2 Who gives a toss? Part 2: When sending Australia in backfired […]

This article completes this series, with a final ten instances. The previous Part 1 and Part 2 listed 20 other things that will never happen again in an Ashes contest. Perhaps in 50 years’ time cricket followers will look back and marvel that it was once played for five consecutive days, in daylight hours, on natural […]

THE article ‘Remembering Fazal Mahmood — The Oval hero’ (May 30) made my day. It was one of those pieces that...

When international cricket resumed after the dark hiatus of the Second World War, the queues were already snaking early on the morning of the first of the Victory Tests at Lord’s. Gates were closed an

Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966 Credit: Jerry Schatzberg/Getty Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air. Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, s...

Ever a surprise, Beauty And The Beast The Musical, based on the much-loved animated film which won two Oscars for its soaring score and title number, will tour the UK and Ireland, with stars new and old. The Disney hierarchy in New York and London have cast Courtney Stapleton, 27, as Belle, the independent young woman (and bookworm) who discovers, in a tale as old as time, that she and the enchanted Beast can be more than just friends.  Stapleton has previously appeared in Six, Dear Evan Hanse...

By Rex Clementine Cricket contests between Sri Lanka and West Indies generally have been good natured but on Wednesday the teams were involved in an ill-tempered game as opening batsman Danushka Gunathilaka was given out ‘Obstructing the Field’ during the opening ODI at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. He became the first Sri Lankan cricketer to be dismissed in that fashion. Obstructing the Field is such a rare dismissal in cricket and only Len Hutton has been dismissed in that fashi...