<b>Uddalok Bhattacharya:</b> Statistics don't tell the full cricket story

Nostalgia and anecdotes, given to us by cricket's great writers, do much greater justice to the game

At the outset I apologise to the reader for repeating part of what I have written before, though in a different media space. The subject is cricket, or the cricket that was played before 1991, the year Vivian Richards left the game. I did not keep track of cricket after that and so I do not know who the best boys of the game are. But when I am told that the best Indian cricketers of all time barring three (Sunil Gavaskar, G R Vishwanath and Kapil Dev) did not play before 1992, I cannot but resist the temptation of