Jack Hobbs

An all-time Test XV picked by readers

A one-line telegram to his wife, Ada, told the story all of Fleet Street had come to write

Also, who has the most Test scores between 80 and 99?

Also, best percentage of hundreds to innings, most frequent appearances on the Lord's honours board, most first-class fifties, and Sanga and Mahela's twin totals

Cricket is a game of partnerships. Here are five that can go down in history

How do Hobbs and Sutcliffe compare to Greenidge and Haynes? A look at the most durable combinations who opened the batting in Test cricket

Four Australians and three West Indians make it to the side. Warne, Gilchrist and Akram other recent players to feature

John Arlott salutes the Master in 1952

His Test record is imposing enough, but Jack Hobbs has set some first-class numbers which will probably never be surpassed

The Master's autobiography provides glimpses of a long-ago time that is strikingly similar (and not) to ours

England's all-time team has just two players from the last 30 years

One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side

A "professional who batted just like an amateur", he was perceived as businesslike, but was actually a brilliant, spontaneous, original player

RC Robertson-Glasgow recalls two memorable centuries at Taunton in August 1925

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

A look back at the expectations that surrounded Jack Hobbs in 1925

A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's tour game against Northern Districts

Eleven players who continued turning out well beyond normal retirement age

The news of Botham's knighthood is wonderfully appropriate and shamefully overdue