Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Key biographies
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Listing of key bios. Feel free to update the progress yourself.
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[edit] ESPN Top 50
This is a rough guide. It contains the Wisden Cricketers of the Century, as the top 5 intersect.
| Name | Class | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Bradman | B+++ | Anons have been adding lots of material |
| Garfield Sobers | Start | No chronological account, only a recap of records |
| Viv Richards | Start+ | Chronological account only for early career |
| Shane Warne | B+ | Chronological account missing for mid career. Signs of hyperbole |
| Jack Hobbs | B | ?? |
| Dennis Lillee | B | hagiography |
| Sachin Tendulkar | B | Massive NPOV problems, no proper chronological account. Has inline cites |
| Imran Khan | Start+ | Ignored the politics section, this is small. |
| Wally Hammond | Start+ | |
| Sunil Gavaskar | B | Would be good to have a couple more references, however is very good otherwise. |
| Ian Botham | B | Chronological account only for 1981 Ashes. Rest is general assertions |
| Richard Hadlee | B- | |
| Keith Miller | Start | Heavy on personality, not so much on actual cricket |
| WG Grace | B | |
| Graeme Pollock | Start- | |
| Malcolm Marshall | B- | hagiography |
| Greg Chappell | B | A lot of cleanup. Lots of content. Heavily edited recently by disgruntled Indian fans, so it seems. NPOV issues |
| George Headley | Start | |
| Frank Worrell | Start- | |
| Len Hutton | Start+ | hyperbole |
| Wasim Akram | Start+ | Nationalism issues |
| Kapil Dev | B++ | Comprehensive, some language issues |
| Steve Waugh | B+ | Career in detail. need proper sources |
| Barry Richards (cricketer) | Start | |
| Allan Border | B+ | Chronological account very detailed |
| Sydney Barnes | Start+ | flowery |
| Everton Weekes | B | |
| Wilfred Rhodes | Start | Peacock statements |
| Herbert Sutcliffe | B | Peacock statements, hagiography |
| Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) | FA | FA confirmed May 2007 |
| Courtney Walsh | Start+ | |
| Mike Procter | Start+ | Some language needs to be toned down |
| Fred Trueman | B | Hagiography |
| Brian Lara | B- | Lacks article prose |
| Clyde Walcott | B- | |
| Richie Benaud | B+ | Broadcasting stuff not included |
| Joel Garner | Start- | |
| Andy Roberts | Start- | |
| Curtly Ambrose | Start- | Bit POV |
| Michael Holding | Start | Anecdotal humour is disproportionate |
| Glenn McGrath | Start+ | POV hype, some inline cites |
| Jim Laker | Start | |
| Clarrie Grimmett | Start | |
| Javed Miandad | Start | |
| Ray Lindwall | GA | Passed January 08 |
| Victor Trumper | Start | |
| Alan Knott | Start | |
| Allan Donald | Start+ | Needs cleanup, a bit random |
| Alan Davidson (cricketer) | GA | Passed October 07 |
| Bishan Singh Bedi | Start- |
[edit] Australian Cricket Hall of Fame
Those already in the ESPN list not included.
| Name | Class | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Fred Spofforth | B- | Weasel words |
| Jack Blackham | Start | |
| Bill Ponsford | Start | |
| Warwick Armstrong | GA | |
| Neil Harvey | GA-> A? | Passed June 07 |
| Bill Woodfull | GA | Passed May 07 |
| Arthur Morris | FA | FA confirmed November 2007 |
| Stan McCabe | GA | Passed Jan 07 |
| Ian Chappell | FA | FA confirmed November 2007 |
| Lindsay Hassett | B | |
| Hugh Trumble | B | |
| Clem Hill | FA | March 2008 |
| Rod Marsh | B- | |
| Bob Simpson | B+ | |
| Monty Noble | Start- | |
| Charlie Macartney | FA | FA confirmed October 2007 |
| George Giffen | Start- | |
| Ian Healy | Start+ | FA confirmed October 2007 |
[edit] Highly decorated players in recent times
ESPN list was done in 2001, so players in the last decade may be omitted. ACHoF only selects "old" players so to speak. So added a list of notable people, long career in last decade. As well as a few notorious ones
| Name | Class | Comments/Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Anil Kumble | Start+ | 500+ Test wickets |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | Start | NPOV issues etc. Rationale is obvious |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Start | Doosra |
| Kumar Sangakkara | Start- | Fully specialist keeper and batsman |
| Adam Gilchrist | FA | As above |
| Matthew Hayden | Start | Prolific runscoring |
| Mohammad Yousuf | Start | Recent runscoring spree |
| Rahul Dravid | B | Heavy runscoring, POV issues |
| Inzamam-Ul-Haq | Start+ | POV issues, long sustained performance |
| Jacques Kallis | Start+ | Sustained performance |
| Michael Vaughan | B | Perhaps the Australian media Ashes obsession is getting to me |
| Andrew Flintoff | B | Per above? |
| Shaun Pollock | Start | Sustained long term performance |
| Hansie Cronje | B | Unpleasant reasons, now detailed, but given all teh controversy, could be more detailed |
| Andy Flower | Start | Fully specialist keeper and batsman |
| Mohammad Azharuddin | Start- | unpleasant reasons |
| Saleem Malik | Start- | unpleasant reasons |
| Michael Bevan | B | ODIs |
| Waqar Younis | Start | NPOV |
[edit] John Woodcock's Hundred Greatest of All Time
A list produced by the distinguished cricket writer John Woodcock in 1997. Though rather weighted towards English players, it has the advantage of covering the whole history of the game. Those already listed above are not included, reducing the list from 100 to 45.
| Name | Class | Comments/Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Mynn | Start | lacks infobox |
| Denis Compton | Start+ | shortage of references, otherwise not bad |
| Frank Woolley | Start | shortage of references |
| Alec Bedser | B | short on references, otherwise good |
| Ted Dexter | Start+ | playing career portion needs extending |
| Arthur Shrewsbury | B | a good beginning |
| Peter May | Start+ | |
| K S Ranjitsinhji | B | short on references, otherwise good |
| William Beldham | Start | lots of info, but needs structuring; no citations, referencing is a default list |
| George Lohmann | B | with more references might make GA |
| George Hirst | B | a fine article, but it is short of citations |
| Hugh Tayfield | Start+ | pretty good but on the short side and lacking in citations |
| Tom Richardson | B | pretty good, though short of citations and occasionally verging on hagiography |
| Colin Cowdrey | Start+ | quite long, but even so could be expanded, and lacking in citations |
| Rohan Kanhai | Start | good quality but far too short |
| Graham Gooch | B | needs sectioning and, though substantial, should be further expanded |
| C. B. Fry | Start | good overall, but the cricket section needs major expansion |
| Ken Barrington | Start | needs expansion and citations |
| John Small | Start+ | needs expansion and structuring; does now have citations |
| Geoff Boycott | B | with more citations would have a shot at GA |
| Allan Steel | Start | But for the infobox, I'd have rated it as a stub. Needs major expansion. |
| Godfrey Evans | Stub | has an infobox, but not much beyond that |
| Learie Constantine | Start+ | good on his life as a whole, but the cricket part is rather brief, and it lacks references |
| Clive Lloyd | Start+ | substantial piece, but lacking in structure and wholly without references |
| David Gower | Start+ | substantial piece, but lacking in structure and short on references |
| Charles Turner | B | the B may be a little generous, as it lacks structure and is short on references |
| Archie MacLaren | Stub | a good beginning but needs major expansion |
| Gilbert Jessop | Start | needs structuring and more citations |
| Alfred Shaw | Start | needs structuring and more citations |
| Brian Statham | Start+ | needs citations to support statements that - though probably true - currently appear as POV. Otherwise pretty good - substantial and well structured. |
| Vintcent van der Bijl | Start | needs expansion |
| Fazal Mahmood | Start | needs expansion |
| Hanif Mohammad | Start | needs expansion |
| Stanley Jackson | Stub+ | close to "Start" but needs considerable expansion |
| Bob Willis | Start+ | substantial article, but needs structuring and more citations |
| Derek Underwood | Stub+ | totally lacks references and needs structuring and expanding |
| Sonny Ramadhin | Start | starts well but then tails off, having almost nothing about his career after 1950 |
| Lance Gibbs | Start | substantial, but lacking in references and structure |
| Wes Hall | Start | substantial, but lacking in references and structure |
| Vinoo Mankad | Start | lacks references and needs some expansion |
| Harold Larwood | Start | lacks references and needs some expansion |
| Jack Gregory | Start | lacks references and needs expansion |
| Herbie Taylor | B | |
| Aravinda de Silva | Start | lacks references and needs expansion |
| JR Reid | Stub+ | needs expanding |
