The 100 Greatest Cricketers of the Last 31 Years
At my desk at home, directly in my eyeline, every day, I see the evidence of my life's pursuit, the yellow covers of the 32 almost identical Wisden Cricketers Almanacks for every year from 1984 to 2015. These are my own years of watching and loving cricket; that's why this list will encompass the slightly awkward figure of 31 years. It could just as well have been 30. There'd have been no change. I haven't found much about sport to write about lately, and since I'm always happy considering and compiling a list, this seemed the obvious task for me to get the ball rolling again. I put together something similar for Football a few months ago, though I limited that to post-2000, to avoid going out of my depth in pretending to remember players from the 80s and early 90s I couldn't actually recall that well. I didn't feel that would be a problem for cricket - I've watched huge amounts of cricket since 1984, as much as could be watched, really, and there is...