Dave Wilson - ARTICLES

Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara – modern batsmen with more than 66,000 Test runs between them. But which had most impact? Dave Wilson investigates.

Richard Hadlee may have been a big fish in a small pond, but how does he compare to a big fish in a big pond, such as Peter May?

When Richie Benaud passed away earlier this year, I was moved to re-read the publications of his which reside in my cricket library, one of which, Over but Not Out, includes this phrase:- “A champion is generally regarded as a cut above the rest of the field”.
Dave Wilson applies Benaud’s Law to unearth them.

Dave tries to remain unbiased…and to keep the cat alive as long as possible. Or not.

Dave Wilson takes a close look at the ICC Hall of Fame and in particular those who may be deserving but are likely to miss out.

Following Gareth’s assessment of how the four great all-rounders of the ’80s performed against the West Indies, Dave looks at their overall career impact in Tests.

Dave looks at the impact of England batsmen through the ages, and finds that one name stands apart.

AG “Johnnie” Moyes said of the 1960-61 West Indian tourists to Australia that they “gave the genuine cricket lover a thrill he had not felt for a quarter of a century” – here Dave describes the events of that memorable tour.

Dave recalls the first Test match he ever read about, the tied Test between Australia and West Indies at Brisbane in 1960.

As most people know, aggregates and averages only tell part of the story in cricket, and so it is with match impact. In this piece Dave looks in more depth at some greats of the pre-World War One period.