Lawry is commentating, McKenzie's name is rarely heard in cricket discussions. Yet he carried the Australian attack throughout the 1960s, a decade when they lost only two series. When he played his last match in the baggy green, he was fourth on the...

Cricketing legend and professional Yorkshireman Fred Trueman hosted the show and would poke his pipe at the camera as he introduced beer-bellied Northerners battling it out on such classic pub games as Shove Ha'penny, table football and arm wrestling,...

There were Richie Benaud, myself and Bobby Simpson, working for Channel 10. Channel 0 [it was called] back then. We did one or two of those, on small grounds. And then, of course, along comes Kerry Packer in 1977-78, and the first commentary team was...

Great Blog always enjoy reading Aggers and your blog. Maybe someone like Michael Vaughn should also put his perspective on a blog. R Brooker 21 Whilst agreeing with you, regarding Boycs, TMS has always had that affect. Jim Swanton, Trevor Bailey and...

A real amphitheatre where you expect Roman gladiators to appear at any moment. We were in Melbourne in 1976 for the Centenary Test and Fred Trueman arranged for us to pop over to have a couple of games in New Zealand afterwards. You sit on this...

Dhoni, on the contrary, is at the helm presently and completely secure as leader. In those two wretched series of 50s and 60s, the teams were a cut above what England and Australia have been able to throw at the Indians in the last seven months. The...