Leonard Hutton

A look at how players did in the last 10% of their careers compared to the first 90%

We look back to the summer of 1946 and the return of the County Championship after a seven-year absence

And how many times have both captains bagged pairs in the same Test?

Playwright Terence Rattigan's 1953 film The Final Test featured six England Test cricketers

In the Test Trial of 1950 Jim Laker, who had been rejected by Yorkshire, returned to his home of Bradford and took the remarkable figures of 8 for 2

Edward Craig reveals the players who weren't so quick off the blocks

Not every great innings needs to be a big innings - as these five great sub-50 scores prove

Sixty years ago, England arrived in New Zealand, ascendant. The hosts were weak but nobody realised just how low they would descend

Questionable spirit of cricket isn't just a modern tendency. Great players of the past also indulged in it, especially when it came to saving a Test

The Typhoon remembers being at his fastest, chopping willow trees to get strong, and the mateship of the 1954-55 English side

When New Zealand set an unwelcome Test record that still stands almost 60 years later

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

Len Hutton played his last Test match more than 55 years ago, but even today he remains in the top bracket of batsmen who have ever played the game

Even as those around him struggled, Hutton batted on as if on the flattest pitch in the world

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

Cricinfo reports on the seventh day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

Cricinfo reports on the fourth day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

JM Kilburn on the retirement of Len Hutton in 1956