Chris Tavaré

No one who saw Chris Tavaré bat - or set at the crease, rather - will forget it in a hurry, even if the detail is blurred by its endless repetition

Exactly three decades ago today, the classic Melbourne Test of 1982 wound to a dramatic close

On paper, when England and Sri Lanka met for the first time in England at Lord's in the late summer of 1984, there should have only been one winner ... but Sri Lanka had other ideas

An Englishman who made an art out of obduracy

Jeff Thomson, Geoff Miller, Bob Willis and Geoff Lawson recall the Boxing Day Test of 1983, in which England won by three runs

Christopher Douglas names a team for all reasons, few of them cricket

1964 Birth of the catalyst for Test cricket's current golden age

1973 When he was captain, nobody in world cricket had as much on his plate as Shaun Pollock , who was born today