Picking the Perfect Cricket Team
A cricket statistician shares his list of the greatest players of all time, and invites you to create your own imaginary team.

Everyone loves to rank sportsmen, and what fan hasn’t enjoyed picking their own teams and playing imaginary matches, using dice, cards, table-top games or computers? When it comes to cricket, countless generations of fans have argued at the school playground, dinner table, pub garden, or international match about who were the greatest players of all time.

In this book players are ranked, split according to their roles. Openers, middle-order batsmen, all-rounders, wicket-keepers, fast bowlers, and slow bowlers are all selected in the same proportions in which they make up a team.

In a game awash with numbers, every cricket fan knows what 99.94 and 501 relate to. Some of the numbers explored here transcend the game itself and have become part of cricket’s long historical narrative. Everyone’s list is different—so let the debates begin!
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Picking the Perfect Cricket Team
A cricket statistician shares his list of the greatest players of all time, and invites you to create your own imaginary team.

Everyone loves to rank sportsmen, and what fan hasn’t enjoyed picking their own teams and playing imaginary matches, using dice, cards, table-top games or computers? When it comes to cricket, countless generations of fans have argued at the school playground, dinner table, pub garden, or international match about who were the greatest players of all time.

In this book players are ranked, split according to their roles. Openers, middle-order batsmen, all-rounders, wicket-keepers, fast bowlers, and slow bowlers are all selected in the same proportions in which they make up a team.

In a game awash with numbers, every cricket fan knows what 99.94 and 501 relate to. Some of the numbers explored here transcend the game itself and have become part of cricket’s long historical narrative. Everyone’s list is different—so let the debates begin!
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Picking the Perfect Cricket Team

Picking the Perfect Cricket Team

by Benedict Bermange
Picking the Perfect Cricket Team

Picking the Perfect Cricket Team

by Benedict Bermange

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Overview

A cricket statistician shares his list of the greatest players of all time, and invites you to create your own imaginary team.

Everyone loves to rank sportsmen, and what fan hasn’t enjoyed picking their own teams and playing imaginary matches, using dice, cards, table-top games or computers? When it comes to cricket, countless generations of fans have argued at the school playground, dinner table, pub garden, or international match about who were the greatest players of all time.

In this book players are ranked, split according to their roles. Openers, middle-order batsmen, all-rounders, wicket-keepers, fast bowlers, and slow bowlers are all selected in the same proportions in which they make up a team.

In a game awash with numbers, every cricket fan knows what 99.94 and 501 relate to. Some of the numbers explored here transcend the game itself and have become part of cricket’s long historical narrative. Everyone’s list is different—so let the debates begin!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526769718
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 12/28/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Benedict Bermange inherited his father’s Owzthat rollers at the age of nine and that was the start of a love affair with cricket. He has been part of the ICC Rankings team since the age of twelve and captained Hatfield College while studying at Durham University. In 2006 he joined Sky Sports as their cricket statistician, and in his club cricket career his highest score is 76 and his best bowling figures 6-12.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nasser Hussain vi

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Opening Batsmen 1

Chapter 2 Middle-Order Batsmen 39

Chapter 3 All-rounders 95

Chapter 4 Wicketkeepers 115

Chapter 5 Fast Bowlers 135

Chapter 6 Slow Bowlers 185

Afterword 210

Acknowledgements 212

Index of Players Featured 213

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