batsman

Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth remembers Australia’s tough batsman Dean Jones

by

It was in 42-degree heat at Madras in 1986 that Dean Jones – who has died of a heart attack aged just 59 – played perhaps the bravest Test innings by an Australian. The game would finish as the second tie in Test history, but not before Jones, winning only his third cap, had made … Read more

Legendary West Indies batsman Sir Everton Weekes reached greatness

by

It seems ludicrous now, but Sir Everton Weekes – the legendary West Indian batsman who has died at the age of 95 and was universally known as one of the ‘Three Ws’ – was briefly dropped from Test cricket. Playing in his first series, against England in early 1948, he was reprieved for the fourth … Read more