Mike Brearley

Derek Underwood, the former England spinner, will begin his one-year tenure as president of MCC on Wednesday, taking over from Mike Brearley

After Kevin Pietersen's success, we take a look at 11 other captains who made a mark early in their reign

All too few top-level players have the writing skills to match. So why are they increasingly making inroads into the cricket media?

Mike Brearley, the president of MCC, has moved to distance the club from the proposals for an English rival to the Indian Premier League

Incidents that got the lawmakers thinking

The subject of substitute fielders has attracted considerable comment and the ICC is set to clamp down on their use. It was an issue that was high on the agenda twenty-seven years ago

Derek Underwood, the former England spinner, is set to become the next president of MCC and will take over from Mike Brearley on October 1

Brearley's book stands apart from the few others on the subject for its authority, simplicity and range of personal examples

Three years after it was devastated by the tsunami, a small corner of Sri Lanka is looking to the future with hope - and that's thanks in no small part to the world's premier cricket club

In Yorkshire in August 1977 news of Elvis Presley's death and England regaining the Ashes paled into insignificance as Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth hundred

Mike Brearley talks to Siddhartha Vaidyanathan about the essentials of good captaincy

Martin Williamson on an outstanding piece of captaincy from Mike Brearley

Mike Brearley, the former England captain, will serve as the next president of MCC

Lawrence Booth searches through the kitbag of history to find a collection of eccentricities and innovations

The epic Headingley Test of 1981 recreated

Tom Graveney remembers the Headingley Test of 1981

Umpires are always under the spotlight and sometimes the pressure gets to them. In the case of Tom Brooks, it happened during an Ashes Test

Bob Willis, one of the heroes of Headingley 1981, wasn't even in the original squad picked for the Test

An analysis of England's attack and the success they have had in this Ashes series