Alastair Cook hailed Jimmy Anderson the ‘best cricketer England have ever produced’. Our correspondents beg to differ
Young, svelte, pre-injury Botham was great on the numbers alone. In his first 50 Tests Botham scored 2,500 runs at 35 and took 230 wickets at 22, a swing bowler in the Anderson class. For the last eight years of the Botham Supremacy he was something else, toting around his own outlandish celebrity, still conjuring moments of paunchy brilliance, but never looked after in the manner of the current crop. The greatest and, oddly enough, still the most famous modern English cricketer. BR
Written by Tanya Aldred, Andy Bull, Simon Burnton, Tim de Lisle, Ali Martin, Vic Marks, Raf Nicholson, Barney Ronay, Rob Smyth and Isabelle Westbury
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/13/guardian-cricket-writers-pick-greatest-england-cricketers-all-time under the title “Who is the greatest England cricketer of all-time?”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
