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Daily Times June 14, 2021 LAHORE: Ahead of the first-ever World Test Championship final, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has inducted a special list of 10 players into its Hall of Fame. From the Australian allrounder Monty Noble, who made his debut in January 1898, to Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka batting great who retired in August 2015, these ten players’ careers span well over a century of men’s Test cricket. The inductees have been classified into five broad eras: Noble and Aubrey Faulkner from the pre-World War 1 period (early era), Learie Constantine and Stan McCabe from t...

Vinoo Mankad, Kumar Sangakkara inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday announced a special edition intake of 10 cricket icons into the ICC Hall of Fame to celebrate the prestigious

Baggy green tail-enders: Every run counts A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size “It’s not how, it’s how many.” Bowlers really do win matches. But sometimes, they do so with the bat. Even a genuine bunny can play a vital role in extending a lead, reducing a deficit, turning a poor score into a respectable one, or forcing a draw. Each run scored by a tail-ender has the same worth as one scored by a recognised batsman, and sometimes more when it entertains spectators, frustrates opponents or lifts team-m...

What’s a wicket worth? Part 1: Baggy green bowlers A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size “All wickets are equal, but some wickets are more equal than others,” As George Orwell would have put it had he spent more time watching cricket and less time penning Animal Farm. Cricket careers are measured by aggregate, average and strike rate because those numbers are straightforward and comparable. Yet the wickets of some opposing batsmen clearly have far more value than those of others. A bowler who dismissed...