John Edrich

Surrey opener never backed down from a fight during career that yielded 39,790 first-class runs

Graham Gooch picks a team from among the best cricketers he played with

Bob Willis talks about his Ashes stints, bowlers today, and why World Series Cricket was good for the game

Forty years later we can understand that famous English summer in a more nuanced way

Brian Close and John Edrich won plenty of admirers - and took as many hits - on a brutal evening in Manchester in 1976

John Edrich was a legend at Surrey but when he captained a team of young pretenders, he was cast adrift

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

India came to England in 1971 with a record of no wins and 15 defeats in their 19 Tests... but all that changed at The Oval

Poor weather, the threat of another draw and the fear of financial losses conspired to bring the limited-overs game to the international arena in 1971

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

The regeneration of Surrey's headquarters at The Oval will include an honouring of its previous generations, after it was announced that the club intends to name certain sections of the newly rebuilt Vauxhall End after 20 of its greatest players

Saturday's first one-day international between England and Sri Lanka passed in a blur of indifference, as most of the home audience was transfixed by the latest round of football World Cup matches. But it hasn't always been thus

One of the enduring images of watching South Africa of late has been the frequency with which Makhaya Ntini has struck batsmen on the head. Here, Cricinfo picks out 11 moments where tempers spilled over off the field&

John Edrich, the former England opener, has replaced Richard Stilgoe as the president of Surrey County Cricket Club

Geoff Edrich, one of the famous Norfolk brotherhood whose most famous member was the Middlesex and England allrounder Bill, died on January 2 after a long battle with cancer

1949 In Bombay, one of the greatest openers of all time is born

1965 A record-breaking innings from John Edrich

Scoring a century has always been a great achievement in Test cricket