Horace Brearley thus had the distinction of playing first-class cricket for three matches, but another summoned to Bath on that occasion in a crisis caused by Test calls was a young off-spinner ...

“Sweet” said Ben Stokes when told he had overtaken Mike Brearley with 19 Test wins as England captain. Not one for harking back to the past, Stokes was keener to talk up the achievements of ...

As Middlesex reeled off their titles and trophies between 1976 and 1982, it began to occur to Lord's loyalists that somebody, one day, would have to succeed Mike Brearley, the architect of victory.

Jos Buttler joins greats Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara as players who failed to translate their many individual triumphs into success as captains.

Although Stokes has proved himself a thoughtful, dynamic skipper during previous personal droughts, players feed ...