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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…