Find out which wicketkeeper walked on 97 and never made a Test century; who was the medical cricketer who was murdered by his mistress after he tried to break off their affair; which fast bowler failed to see off the massed ranks of Dad's Army; and which monarch professed his dislike of cricket: ''It was the fielding I could not get used to''. Learn who was the fast bowler who would suck a lemon when batting between strokes and spit in the wicketkeeper's eyes if he thought the appeal unjustified; who was the first man to be knighted for services to cricket; and which was the first County Championship match to be rained off. From the first Test match, Cricket On This Day chronicles the major events in the history of the game. With individual entries for every day of the year, it takes a daily look at the world of leather on willow. From Don Bradman to Gary Sobers, it features all the biggest names in cricket, their triumphs and their disasters, their successes and their near misses. And answers the question did a commentator really announce: ''The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey?''