Mike Denness

When Eknath Solkar got under the skin of Geoff Boycott, leading to a three-year self-imposed exile from Test cricket

Team-mate, rival and friend, Mike Denness was a gentleman cricketer, a man with a happy disposition and a caring soul

With a strong work ethic and a moral compass that many a modern-day player would do well to follow, Mike Denness helped build and maintain the glory days of Kent cricket

Figures from around the cricket world offered their tributes to Mike Denness, the former England captain, who died on Friday at the age of 72 after a battle with cancer.

Mike Denness, the former Kent and England captain, has died at the age of 72

Mark Ramprakash, Robert Croft and the former England captain Mike Denness have been recognised in the New Year Honours list

Cricket Scotland began a celebration of their history by launching the Scottish Cricket hall of fame in Edinburgh

At Lord's in 1974, India were bowled out in a little over an hour for 42, in a series which started full of promise but soon fell apart

The English domestic scene, and following it the international cricketing scene, changed dramatically with the birth of limited-overs cricket

When a match referee started a row that briefly threatened to rip world cricket apart on racial lines

We look back to when Mike Denness, England's captain on a particularly unsuccessful Ashes tour, dropped himself

The 1976 John Player League went down to the wire... and left the BBC relying on guesswork to avoid backing a losing horse

Mike Denness, the former Scotland-born England captain, has pinpointed Gavin Hamilton as the crucial player ahead of Scotland's eagerly anticipated clash against England at Edinburgh on Monday

R Mohan reports on the Indian reactions to the crisis which threatened the game's world order

In the days before television coverage was a given at almost every international match anywhere in the world, many controversial incidents, which would now be endlessly replayed and analysed were hardly even commented upon

EW Swanton reviews Assault On The Ashes by Christopher Martin-Jenkins

India's wretched series against England in 1974, a Test whitewash, internal rows, a slighted high commissioner, and an opener in court

The story of when 41-year-old Colin Cowdrey was summoned from his armchair, flown round the world, and thrown in at the deep end against the fastest bowlers in the world

The return of the regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket