My Favourite Cricketer
Description
My Favourite Cricketer features a selection of the finest writing taken from The Wisden Cricketer magazine. Top-quality sports writers and celebrated cricket fans fondly recall their most admired player past or present, and explain their choice of cricketing hero.
The player selection ranges from the obvious choices - such as Trueman, Atherton, Gough, Tendulkar and Sobers - to the more intriguing or humble. Contributors including Gideon Haigh, Duncan Hamilton, Sid Waddell, Stephen Tompkinson and CMJ all present the case for their favourite cricketer and explain just what it is that makes them so special.
Each piece is accompanied by stunning full-colour photography of the player in action.
My Favourite Cricketer shows the breadth of cricket's enduring appeal and presents a record of the most cherished and larger-than-life characters.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Wasim Akram by Mike Selvey
- Mike Atherton by Emma John
- Ken Barrington by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
- Bishan Bedi by Suresh Menon
- Allan Border by Malcolm Knox
- Geoff Boycott by Simon Wilde
- Ally Brown by Hugh Massingberd
- Brian Close by Vic Marks
- John Dye by Simon O'Hagan
- Phil Edmonds by Nick Greenslade
- Farokh Engineer by Michael Henderson
- Angus Fraser by Andrew Miller
- Joel Garner by Derek Pringle
- Adam Gilchrist by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Graham Gooch by Patrick Kidd
- Darren Gough by Stephen Tompkinson
- David Gower by Eleanor Oldroyd
- Tom Graveney by Frank Keating
- Wes Hall by Tony Cozier
- Graeme Hick by Simon Hattenstone
- Eric Hollies by Michael Billington
- Len Hutton by David Nobbs
- Douglas Jardine by Christopher Douglas
- Alan Knott by Mark Pougatch
- Allan Lamb by Lawrence Booth
- Harold Larwood by Peter Roebuck
- John Lever by Alan Davies
- Geoff Miller by Robert Kitson
- Jim Parks by Michael Simkins
- Graeme Pollock by Simon Kuper
- Mike Procter by John Inverdale
- Clive Radley by DJ Taylor
- Derek Randall by Marcus Berkmann
- John Reid by Des Wilson
- Barry Richards by Gavyn Davies
- Garry Sobers by Duncan Hamilton
- John Snow by Alan Lee
- Brian Statham by Gillian Reynolds
- Chris Tavaré by Gideon Haigh
- Sachin Tendulkar by Greg Baum
- Jeff Thomson by John Benaud
- Fred Trueman by Sid Waddell
- Victor Trumper by Mark Ray
- Doug Walters by Kevin Mitchell
- Arthur Wellard by David Foot
- Graeme Wood by Christian Ryan
- List of publication dates of original articles
- List of photo acknowledgements
- Imprint
