Tom Graveney

Tom Graveney, one of England's most elegant batsmen, has died aged 88 after a long struggle against Parkinson's disease

From wizardry in Jamaica to an uprising in Pakistan: our expert panel pick their favourite backs-to-the-wall classics

Letter from... Selkirk

The England batsman on how he almost stayed in the army, what Cardus wrote about him, modern cricketers' propensity to hug and kiss, and more

Gloucestershire's folk hero embodied the dash and splendour of a more gracious age

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

Basil D'Oliveira recalls being left out of the 1968-69 side to tour South Africa ... and the storm which followed

Mark Ramprakash needs two hundreds to join an exclusive group of 24 batsmen to have scored a century of centuries. He and others talked about the landmark moment

Tom Graveney remembers the Headingley Test of 1981

"The good years started as the result of a brawl. They ended with another fight"

The refurbished Lord's pavilion was today opened by Tom Graveney, the MCC's president, after a seven-month, £8.2 million makeover

Basil D'Oliveira © Getty Images There is nothing like being the centre of an international crisis to prove a cricketer's true mettle

Willie Watson, who has died at 84, saved the 1953 Lord's Test with a memorable innings, and was one of the last to play both cricket and football for England

These are peculiar days at Old Trafford

Stephen Chalke investigates bats of the 1950s and why players were keen to watch their weight

1929 Birth of a left-arm spinner whose career makes Phil Tufnell's look boring