John Gleeson

They may be dwindling in importance, but side games used to mean something on tours

Former Australian spinner John Gleeson was unreadable on and off the field. A team-mate remembers

John Gleeson, the former Australia spinner, has died at the age of 78 in Tamworth, New South Wales

A nine-year-old's initiation into big-time cricket, featuring Prasanna, Lawry, Gleeson and a boisterous Bangalore crowd

When the former offspinner adopted unconventional tactics to help the Australians save a tour game in Bangalore

Spinners who can't be bracketed into one style flourish today in cricket, while they struggled to make it big in the past

The last time South Africa beat Australia at home was nearly 44 years ago. Four protagonists from the series remember those heady days

Batting with the prodigiously talented young Barry Richards at Kingsmead in 1970, Graeme Pollock stepped up his game; the Aussies barely survived to tell the tale

Forty-some years before Mendis made heads turn, an Australian country boy was being hailed as Jack Iverson's successor in the ranks of the freak spinners

South Africa's 4-0 clean sweep of Australia in 1969-70 showcased some of the game's all-time greats yet none of them ever played Test cricket again

Twenty years ago one of the classic Test matches was played at the MCG