Denis Compton

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Martin Williamson looks at the players who have overcome physical obstacles to play the game

The D'Artagnan of world cricket is the apt phrase employed by former New Zealand captain Walter Hadlee to describe the renowned English batsman Denis Compton, whose life's innings has ended at 78

Fifty years ago Len Hutton's team left England for an Ashes tour that has passed into legend

Martin Williamson looks back on the world's first floodlit match ... and it took place more than 50 years ago at Arsenal

Eleven batsmen who scaled the heights

1975 Quite a memorable day in Test cricket - considering no play was possible

A match report from the 5th Test at The Oval in 1953, when England regained the Ashes after 19 years

Trevor Bailey recalls the day that England won the Ashes in 1953

Keith Andrew recalls a gruelling experience in Brisbane in 1954

The England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia have announced the Compton-Miller Medal, to be awarded to the player of the series in the forthcoming Ashes.

John Arlott's personal reflections on the great England rearguard at Lord's in 1953, when, it seemed, half the country held its breath all afternoon

Cricket may not feature in many films but it did provide a peaceful backdrop away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood

England's Greatest Post-War XI is named with the publication of the October issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine

Academies are all the rage in cricket at the moment

John Arlott paid tribute to Denis Compton on his 70th birthday in 1988

In the May 1976 issue of The Cricketer, EW Swanton looked back thirty years to the first full summer after the war

Reg Hayter has a few words with Sir Len Hutton and Denis Compton

1947 Playing for Middlesex at Lord's, Denis Compton took yet another century off the touring South Africans in his golden summer