Thursday, 29 March 2007

The Wisden 40

The new issue of the Wisden Almanack is out. This issue includes a list of the 40 "leading cricketers" in the world and this list has very handily been published online. It includes three New Zealanders - Shane Bond, Stephen Fleming and Dan Vettori. Each gets a nice write-up, although I do wish the English would stop referring to the New Zealand side as "faceless" like they do in Shane Bond's profile. As seems to be usual with Wisden, the only countries that really seem to exist are those which have played a major series against England in the past year.

1 comment:

Suhas said...

England's usage of 'faceless' to describe Kiwi teams actually brings back some great memories. On the first day of the first test during the England tour of 1999, I still remember Ted Corbett (whose column also appears in the Hindu in India) writing, "New Zealand, fighting an anonymous fight, are only one notch short of being the most boring, most faceless side ever in history...". I suppose no one needs any reminders of what happened in that series...