Yorkshire Country Cricket Club successfully bookended the Second World War, with championship victories in 1939 and 1946. On the surface it would seem that the …

Whilst the war denied the probable peak playing years of cricketers such as Len Hutton and Denis Compton, and took away the test twilights of …

For the ordinary soldier serving in North Africa during the war, their cricketing opportunities were usually restricted to makeshift pitches created on stony ground, with …

Despite the absence of the County Championship between 1940 and 1945, over the course of six English domestic wartime seasons cricket aficionados could still enjoy …

As the domestic game faces the very real prospect of the `season that never was’ of 2020, the previous occasion during which test and first-class …