For many days now, I have been thinking of what an all-time cricketing World XI would look like. At first, I decided I would pick out the players from our times whose feats I was familiar with. And those I would add to the names, actually only two, whom I had not seen but who everyone agrees are the two best cricketers in history.
Those two are, of course, Donald Bradman and Garry Sobers, both knighted. Bradman, a right-hander, batted, in this team of mine, at number 3 and Sobers, a leftie, at number 6. Most of us are familiar