An all-rounder of great quality. ibid.
He became the first man to take 400 wickets. ibid.
He was Australia’s greatest all-rounder, lethal with the ball, a swashbuckler with the bat. He had the manner and the bearer of a boy’s-own hero. Legends of Cricket e13: Keith Miller
As a bowler Miller was famously unpredictable. ibid.
Miller had become the golden boy of Australian cricket. ibid.
‘He was a god.’ ibid. cricket historian
Matches: 55; Runs 2958; Average 36.97; Wickets: 170; Average 22.97; Catches 38. ibid.
He is celebrated as his country’s Player of the Century. His timing and placement were sublime. His integrity and his love for the game transcended politics and self-interest. A batsman of rare genius. Legends of Cricket e15: Graeme Pollock
A master batsman at the height of his powers. ibid.
At the age of 26 Graeme Pollock’s test career is over. ibid.
Matches: 23; Runs: 2256; Average: 60.97. ibid.
By the end of the 1984/85 tour of Australia he had taken five wickets or more in an innings eleven times in fourteen tests. Legends of Cricket e16: Malcolm Marshall
Test matches: 81; Wickets 376; Average 20.94. ibid.
He had a remarkable sense of occasion, making hundreds in his first and last test match innings and two centuries in his first test as captain. He was a commanding and cultured player. Legends of Cricket e17: Greg Chappell
1982 Ashes, 2nd Test Day 3 Lord’s 131 ... ‘I rate that as my best test innings.’ ibid.
Test Matches 87; Runs 7,110; Average 53.86; Wickets 47, Average 30.70; Catches 122. ODI Matches 73; Average 40.18; Wickets 72; Average 29.12. ibid.
A small finely constructed man who hit the ball with great power. Legends of Cricket e18: George Headley
He was known as Atlas because of the way he carried the West Indies side. ibid.
He was an exquisite stylist with the bat. He was tough and shrewd. But always gracious. He was an inspiration to his countrymen. A natural leader who grew to become one of the game’s greatest statesmen. Legends of Cricket e19: Sir Frank Worrell
Worrell was a stylist and superb technician with the bat. ibid.
He also made useful contributions with the ball. ibid.
Tests: 51; Runs 3860; Average 49.48; Wickets: 69; Average 38.73; Catches: 48. ibid.
Ashes 1938: A record test match score of 364. Legends of Cricket e20: Sir Len Hutton
As close to perfect as any batsman to play the game. ibid.
‘I never saw anyone with a better technique.’ ibid. Richie Benaud
Hutton was at the pinnacle of his career but he would not play another test match for six years. ibid.
Tests: 79; Runs 6971; Average 56.67. ibid.
He is arguably the finest fast left-arm bowler of all time. He is a record-breaking batsman and captain of his country. Legends of Cricket e21: Wasim Akram
The 1992 World Cup Final in Melbourne. Wasim Akram turned in an all-round performance that won him man of the match and secured the cup for Pakistan. ibid.
By mid-2001 Wasim had played in 102 test matches and more than three hundred one-day internationals. ibid.
Test matches: 104; Wickets 414; Average 23.62 (mid-2001) ibid.
He was an outstanding fast bowler. Legends of Cricket e22: Kapil Dev
Within twelve months Kapil became the youngest and quickest player to take one hundred test wickets and score one thousand test runs, beating records set by Graham McKenzie and Ian Botham. ibid.
Test Matches 131; Runs 5,248; Average 31.05; Wickets 434; Average 29.64. ibid.
He is a diamond: hard and uncompromising, a street fighter. He is cool and calculating, yet his passions run deep ... Never beaten, never satisfied. Legends of Cricket e23: Steve Waugh
Matches 168; Runs 10,927; Average 51.06; Wickets 92: Average 37.44, Catches 112. ibid.
ODI: Matches 325; Runs 7,569; Average 32.90; Wickets 195; Average 34.67; Catches 111. ibid.
He ranked among the finest batsmen of his generation. Some say he was one of the best of all time. Yet he played just four test matches. Technically flawless, extravagantly gifted. Legends of Cricket e24: Barry Richards
‘Tremendous player.’ ibid. Dicky Bird
Allan Border’s double century in 1993 was one of the finest achievements in an 18-year international career studded with glory and characterised by courage. Legends of Cricket e25: Allen Border
‘Tremendous player.’ ibid. Dicky Bird
His average never dropped below 50. ibid.
We expose the criminal gangs who fix international cricket matches … International players agree to take money to play in a corrupt cricket tournament. Criminals describe how they pay bribes to influence the score in four international cricket matches. Cricket’s Match Fixers, Al Jazeera 2018
More widespread than ever but also becoming more difficult to prove. ibid.
They bribe groundsmen to doctor cricket pitches to favour either bowlers or batsmen. ibid.
The plan: to set up in the United Arab Emirates a corrupt cricket tournament. ibid.
You can’t talk about cricket without thinking about the values that were behind it. Death of a Gentleman, Andrew Wingfield-Digby, 2015
Cricket stands for something and the game should never be allowed to die. ibid. Michael Holding
We couldn’t have known then that we would stumble across one of the biggest scandals in sport. ibid. commentary
Was test cricket really dying? ibid.
I fear for the importance and relevance of test cricket. ibid. Michael Holding
The Indian premier league – cricket’s new zeitgeist. ibid.
It was Test Cricket v 20/20. ibid.
The satellite television boom had turned cricket into a billion dollar sport – 1990s: $50m; 2000-2007 $550m; 2007-2015 $1.1 billion – but that money came predominantly from the TV-friendly shorter formats, and particularly in the three countries whose economies and populations combined to generate huge value television deals. This meant that their national boards were entrenched at the top of cricket. ibid.
An increasingly oligarchic cricket state run by two or three powerful nations in cahoots with each other. ibid.
West Indies had little option but to play fewer test matches. ibid.
The Indian board wanted to change the way ICC revenues were divided. ibid.
Test cricket was just a small part of the battle for control of the whole game. ibid.
Lack of financial transparency: We believe there is an overall lack of transparency around financial distribution in global cricket, which means certain aspects of the finances of global cricket are not well understood. ibid. Woolf report
Cricket’s night of the long knives was not over yet. ibid.
Big 3 Set To Sideline The ICC: BCCI gives nod to radical proposal that has split World Cricket. ibid. television news 26 May 2013
The exact opposite of what Lord Woolf had recommended. ibid.
Cricket’s reforms were rubber-stamped on February 8th 2014 at an unspecified location in Singapore. N Srinivasan would be sworn in as the first Chairman of the ICC later that year. ibid.
It stands as a monument to the greatest sportsman Australia has ever produced ... Home to the Bradman museum. Sporting Greats – Sir Don Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman dominated cricket from the moment he graced its centre stage in 1928 until his retirement two decades later. ibid.