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2 unusual facts about Wisden Cricketers of the Year


1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The captaincy was then passed to Andrew Stoddart a future England rugby captain and Wisden Cricketer of the Year.

Harold Gimblett

But Gimblett's own performance drew one of the game's accolades: in the 1953 edition of Wisden, he was named one of the Five Cricketers of the Year, alongside Tom Graveney, David Sheppard, Stuart Surridge and Fred Trueman.


Casey-South Melbourne Cricket Club

47 international players have represented the club, eight of whom have been listed as a WisdenCricketer of the Year”.

Major Booth

Major William Booth (10 December 1886 in Lowtown, Pudsey, Yorkshire, England – 1 July 1916 near La Cigny, France) was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1908 and 1914, a season in which he was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Mushtaq Ahmed

Mushtaq was part of the Pakistan team which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup, and five years later, he was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Raymond Swann

His younger son Graeme represented Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and England and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2010.


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