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Ian Botham
Nov 9, 2009: In the 80s in England, Ian Botham transcended cricket alone - he represented the spirit of achievement in all areas of life
Rohan Kanhai
A flashing blade, a canny mind
Oct 15, 2009: He may have seemed a trigger-happy dasher, but he also had the sharpest of cricketing brains
Andrew Flintoff
Aug 14, 2009: Flintoff did for British cricket what Botham did, invigorating and replenishing. He brought fresh hope for the game's future
Andy Roberts
May 30, 2009: Take no prisoners, show no mercy. So what if you've got to wear pink on occasion?
Angus Fraser
Portrait of the workman as artist
May 11, 2009: To one teenager at least, Fraser made relentless application and sweaty doggedness glamorous. Almost
Michael Kasprowicz
Apr 28, 2009: Meeting one's heroes can often be a disappointment but not for this loyal Queenslander
Allan Border
Apr 13, 2009: In a team of strugglers and second-stringers, one man stood upright and unsmiling against the tide
Andy Flower
Apr 2, 2009: An emblem for a nation, he came to be defined by one stark image⦠and for one boy growing up in Zimbabwe at the time, an item of cricket kit
Gundappa Viswanath
Mar 5, 2009: The wristy little genius was also among the most universally adored of players
Wes Hall
Feb 10, 2009: On facing one of the all-time great West Indian fast men and living to tell the tale
Ray Lindwall
Jan 14, 2009: The greatest of fast bowlers, the nicest of men
Tom Graveney
Dec 17, 2008: Gloucestershire's folk hero embodied the dash and splendour of a more gracious age
Kris Srikkanth
Nov 25, 2008: The ball may have gone for six, it may have gone to hand - King Kris cared not a bit
Graeme Hick
The shy and retiring run machine
Nov 11, 2008: Sure he may not have done full justice to his talent, but it is time now to celebrate his achievement, not missed opportunity
John Snow
The vicar's son, the rebel and the poet
Oct 7, 2008: His style and charisma were natural and irresistible to a ten-year-old back in the 1960s
Darren Gough
Sep 11, 2008: His heart-on-sleeve heroics and full-on friendship made this Yorkshire trier easy to love
Mike Procter
Jul 16, 2008: If you were a schoolboy in Gloucestershire in the 1970s, there was no question who you wanted to be
John Murray
Jun 17, 2008: The long and short of Middlesex's John Murray was elegance in all he did with gloves or bat - and he could have done more for England
John Reid
May 30, 2008: A dashing, attacking batsman, he kept New Zealand cricket shining through its dark days
Mohammad Azharuddin
May 18, 2008: Artless yet artful, no cricketer so teased and confused the senses

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