Brian Levison Brian Levison has had a lifelong interest in cricket and played club cricket for several years. He is also a writer, poet, and amateur chorister. He is the author of All in a Day's Cricket, and Classical Music's Strangest Concerts & Characters. Brian lives in Oxford.
The iron frame
How the Laws were changed to prevent cheating
Waugh of words
Witty retorts under pressure
Over-dressed for the occasion
Sid Barnes takes the mickey
From sightscreen to silver screen
Cricket takes to the stage
12 o'clock and all's Wells
How Bomber beat the clock
The hunt for the missing run
How a world record almost wasn't
From ashes to The Ashes
Origins of cricket's most famous rivalry
The only blemish
Don Bradman and the 1948 Invincibles
0, 0, 0*, 1, 1*, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1*,
0, 0, 0, 0
The worst batsman in the world
Jennings Tune on song
Ultimate bowling performances
When underarm was underhand
It was legal - but was it fair?
Collecting bug
The world's most expensive cricket book
A costly drop
The 600-run gift
The Blackheath number four
The cricketer linked to five unsolved murders
The bowler who bowled too well
Albert Trott and his benefit match
Beethoven in at number eight
The mathematician who made up teams
The man who loved playing
The umpire with the bowling itch
Once a 'keeper...
Appealing habits of old wicket-keepers
What W.G. doesn't tell you,
Part 1
How Pooley missed the boat
What W.G. doesn't tell you,
Part 2
The episode of the kidnapped player
Golden oldies
Old enough and good enough
Twenty20 fiasco
An offer that should have been refused
Help yourself
Wellington serve up 77-run over
Testing the boundaries
How Somerset were too clever for their own good
Unexpected fame at 37
The player who rose and fell without trace
Well batted, you're dropped!
When the best wasn't good enough
Pass the hat, please
Three in a row does the trick
No room for sentiment
Easier to survive a war than the umpire's decision
A doubtful action
Was cricket's most successful bowler a chucker?
The most exalted hat-trick
Bertie's King-sized victims
Son of a Gunn
Well done, relatively speaking
Hit around The Parks
A first-class debut to forget
Who got the runs?
When the B's took on the rest,
and other strange games
A perfect over
Then Gibbs gives it away
Snowballs in June
The dentally challenged batsman
Neither home nor away
The short, odd, first-class career of Harry Wilson
Jammy for the Jam Sahib
Ranji's legendary record
All over in four and a half hours
The lowest-scoring match on record
Five of the best
The cricketer who should have read Wisden
Out twice before Lynch
Monte's terrible morning
Rippon - or rip-off?
When the tax people looked the other way
Reaping the benefit
How Dickie Dodds batted for God
In your own words
Choice entries in the scorebook
Slowly does it
Nadkarni on the money
83 per cent of the total
Batsmen who did it on their own
The King of cricket
The Yank who struck out Ranji
Australia's Old Trafford
nightmare
Jim Laker's unbeatable achievement
Alletson's innings
A once-in-a-lifetime knock
Struck out of sight
Off-days of the great bowlers
The greatest ODI ever?
The game that broke six records
Through the covers
Cricket and the literary link
The longest gap
22 years between matches
Cricket's greatest name?
A rival to Grace and Bradman
Cricket in high places...
...And low places, cold places and wet places