Glenn Turner

'Being a perfectionist was my problem'

Jul 3, 2009: Play straight, talk straight - what you got was what you saw with Turner, one of New Zealand's first professional cricketers

1979

I do declare

May 23, 2009: Few incidents have been as cynical as Somerset's declaration after one over of their Benson & Hedges Cup one-dayer against Worcestershire

Graeme Hick

The shy and retiring run machine

Nov 11, 2008: Sure he may not have done full justice to his talent, but it is time now to celebrate his achievement, not missed opportunity

Zaheer Khan

'I'm here to lead by example'

Oct 9, 2008: Back after yet another hiatus, Zaheer Khan has taken up the mantle of the team's spearhead again

English season review

Time to hang up the bats and boots

Sep 29, 2008: During the season a number of players announced their retirements, including some major forces on the county scene. Cricinfo recaps those who have decided their playing days are over

1974

The raining champions

Sep 27, 2008: On the last day of what has, until the last fortnight, been a wretchedly wet domestic season, we look back to a year when the weather robbed Hampshire of the Championship

An embodiment of county cricket

Sep 3, 2008: A tribute to Graeme Hick, who has announced his retirement in his 25th year in county cricket

County awards - July

Malan and Middlesex strike gold

Aug 3, 2008: The first trophy of the county season was decided in July, while the Championship continued to take shape. Cricinfo looks back at the last month of action.

The Kolpak issue

The rape of South Africa's resources

May 30, 2008: Cricket South Africa and all concerned with the future of the game in the Republic now need to really have their wits about them as the trickle has become a full-scale flood, with close to 50 players having gone down the Kolpak route

The Wisden Cricketer

Australian Kolpaks get closer

Nov 5, 2007: Lawrence Booth on the probable expansion of Kolpak

England domestic season 2007 review

Thrilling in the rain

Sep 25, 2007: Andrew McGlashan reviews England's 2007 domestic season

The Wisden Cricketer - October 2007

The Championship - what's the score?

Sep 20, 2007: Paul Weaver goes in search of the truth about the County Championship

1963

The first one-day final

Aug 18, 2007: We are used to the razzmatazz of the one-day game - coloured clothing, white balls, run-rates of six or more an over - but that has as much in common with the original final back in 1963 as a village friendly does to a Twenty20 international nowadays

Successful counties with weak bank balances

Victory no passport to profit

Aug 14, 2007: Sussex count their double cost and counties outside the Test circle are selling their souls for survival, reports Paul Coupar

Doug Bollinger talks about avoiding floods and going to Pakistan

Bubbling up nicely

Jul 31, 2007: Jenny Thompson catches up with Doug Bollinger ahead of Australia A's tour of Pakistan

County view

Counting the cost

Jul 31, 2007: Although there is the best part of two months left in this season, 2007 will be remembered for the rain

The Week That Was...July 16-22

Welsh spare ribs

Jul 22, 2007: Will Luke looks back at The Week That Was

Netherlands in Ireland, 2007

England is the future for Kervezee

Jul 10, 2007: Alex Kervezee is a very rare breed indeed: a gifted, young Associates batsman - so talented, in fact, that Worcestershire swooped to secure him at a positively cherubic 16

Twenty20

The godsent gimmick

Jun 22, 2007: Paul Weaver explains how Twenty20 has evolved, developing skills and tactics all of its own

Graeme Hick: Somerset v Worcestershire, 1988

A tank against pea-shooters

May 6, 2007: Huw Turbervill looks back to Graeme Hick's 405 against Somerset in 1988, interviewing the key victims