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RESULT • 2nd Match, Group C • T20 World Cup • T20I • Providence

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(19/20 ov, T:137) 137/5

West Indies won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)

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Denis Compton

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Denis Compton

INTL CAREER: 1937 - 1957

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How many bowlers have taken 100 Test wickets or more at a single venue?

How many bowlers have taken 100 Test wickets or more at a single venue?

And which Test spinner was nicknamed "Muscles"?

23-Aug-2022•Steven Lynch

Hutton, Compton and the resumption of county cricket in 1946

Hutton, Compton and the resumption of county cricket in 1946

We look back to the summer of 1946 and the return of the County Championship after a seven-year absence

23-Apr-2020•Paul Edwards

Composed Hameed signals England's long search may be over

Haseeb Hameed's impressive Test debut has fired England's optimism that this time they have found an opener to be reckoned with

12-Nov-2016•George Dobell in Rajkot

The rainmakers

The rainmakers

Talent spotter, brand manager, publicist, PA, troubleshooter, friend, guide - it's all in a day's work for the player agent

02-Feb-2016•Will Macpherson

We're such jolly good fellows

We're such jolly good fellows

The 1954-55 England Ashes players get their party hats on for a festive dinner in between some exhilarating victories

The summer of a man's life

The summer of a man's life

The summer of 1947 was the zenith for the County Championship, and of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich

03-Oct-2015•Martin Williamson

The un-English flair of Denis Compton

The un-English flair of Denis Compton

The antithesis of the dour English batting stereotype, Compton wowed fans and peers with his ability to play all the shots in the textbook and several outside of it

10-Aug-2014•Stuart Wark

Bruised but not shaken

Bruised but not shaken

Famous incidents when batsmen were hit by bouncers

02-Sep-2013•Steven Lynch

Locked-up Compton needs to find his past

Locked-up Compton needs to find his past

Tense and afraid failure will cost him his England place, Nick Compton must rediscover his inner-Denis

16-May-2013•Mark Nicholas

'I wanted to stop batsmen from getting on to the front foot'

'I wanted to stop batsmen from getting on to the front foot'

The Typhoon remembers being at his fastest, chopping willow trees to get strong, and the mateship of the 1954-55 English side

16-May-2013•Interview by Ken Piesse

Cricket's most exclusive club

Cricket's most exclusive club

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

05-May-2012•Martin Williamson

'I don't care what I look like, I want to give the bowlers nothing'

'I don't care what I look like, I want to give the bowlers nothing'

Somerset's Nick Compton is an an old-school scrapper whose timeless virtues are paying dividends

30-Apr-2012•Interview by George Dobell

The speedboat and the toes

The speedboat and the toes

Touring the Caribbean is a far from easy affair for cricketers, but Fred Titmus returned home more mangled than most

03-Dec-2011•Martin Williamson

From Grace to Hick

From Grace to Hick

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

02-Aug-2008•Patrick Kidd

The call of the long haul

The call of the long haul

England's top six could do worse than get their heads down and churn out the hard yards rather than dream of IPL cash

Different era, same brilliance

Different era, same brilliance

Which players from the past would have done well at Twenty20? We put our thinking caps on.

12-Sep-2007•Martin Williamson and Siddarth Ravindran

Signing off with a whimper

Signing off with a whimper

Brian Lara's final innings ended in anticlimax, but he is not alone in not bowing out in fairytale fashion. Here are 11 other players who have departed with a whimper rather than a bang

26-Apr-2007•Martin Williamson

Filling their boots

Filling their boots

Cricinfo takes a look back at other batsmen who have made bowling attacks shudder as they enjoyed memorable years

30-Nov-2006•Martin Williamson and Andrew McGlashan

Thanks for the memory

Thanks for the memory

John Arlott floats his mind back to the exquisite (for England) Australian tour of 1954-55

Losing sight of a childhood dream

Losing sight of a childhood dream

Simon Lister reviews Denis Compton by Tim Heald

27-Jul-2006•Simon Lister

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