Month: June 2022

Adam Gilchrist must be one of the most fearless cricketers of all time. It is allvery well swinging the bat seemingly without a care in the world at county orstate level, it…

Ray Lindwall raised the standard for fast bowlers in the ten years after theSecond World War. He was a terrific athlete who could have excelled at severalother sports had he not chosen…

Not many bowlers troubled Don Bradman and fewer still caused him genuineconcern. Harold Larwood was one who did. Like the very best express bowlers,there was a lot more to Larwood than extreme…

Just his personal statistics were enough to inspire anxiety at the prospect offacing Joel Garner. At 6ft 8in, few bowlers have stood taller, and with thosegreat big long arms and mighty levers…

Virender Sehwag changed Test cricket, or least changed perceptions as to what was possible from an opening batsman in Test cricket. With his positive play from the first ball, Sehwag set new…

It would have been easy to omit Kevin Pietersen from this list on the grounds ofunreasonable behaviour, but it would also have been most unjust. He has playedsome of the most extraordinary…

Jeff Thomson was a freak of cricketing nature. In his pomp, he was anexceptional athlete with a suppleness and elasticity of frame enabling him todeliver the ball in a way which, if…

Alan Knott was one of the purest wicketkeepers there can ever have been. I onlyplayed alongside him in a couple of Tests during the 1981 Ashes but saw enoughof him over the…