Bill Edrich

As Nick Compton closes in on becoming only the ninth batsman to score 1000 runs before the end of May, we look back to when two did it within four days of each other

A first-hand account of the famous timeless Test in Durban 70 years ago

Cricinfo reports on the ninth day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

Cricinfo reports on the seventh day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

Cricinfo reports on the fifth day's play in the Timeless Test between South Africa and England at Durban in March 1939

When two nights out on the town cost Bill Edrich three years of his Test career

England and Kent legspinner Doug Wright recalls a famous and gruelling match in Durban in 1938-39

A match report from the 5th Test at The Oval in 1953, when England regained the Ashes after 19 years

Trevor Bailey recalls the day that England won the Ashes in 1953

Former Middlesex and England slow left-armer Jack Young recalls starting life on the MCC groundstaff

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