Muttiah Muralitharan (; ) ( also spelt as Muralidaran ; born 1972 ), often referred to as Murali, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack in 2002.

* Cricketers Caroline Atkins and Vallance Jupp were both born in the town.

* April 5-John Wisden, originator of the Cricketers ' Almanack ( born 1826 )

Matthew Thomas Brimson ( born December 1, 1970 ) is a former English cricketer who gained notoriety by exposing himself in a team photograph that was published in the 2000 Wisden Cricketers Almanack.

He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1965, the first Western Australian born recipient.

Timothy Brian Alexander May ( born 26 January 1962 at North Adelaide, South Australia ) is a former cricketer for South Australia and Australia, who is currently a leading players ' representative in his role as Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers ' Associations ( FICA ).

The sport was independently invented in 1973 in The Cricketers Arms pub in Wisborough Green – not far from the town of Horsham ) in West Sussex, England, UK – by a group of young men bemoaning the prohibitive costs of getting involved in any kind of motorsport.

Then state and future Australian selector Chappie Dwyer, who led a team of Sydney Grade Cricketers to play in the country town.

These include, but are not limited to: The Bear and Ragged Staff ( a Wetherspoon pub ), The White Horse, The Miners Arms, The Mountpleasent, The Black Horse, The Lord Raglan, The Black Bank, Saunders Hall, Collycroft Working Men's Club, The Bedworth Liberal Club, Bedworth Conservative Club, The Griffin Inn, The Newdigate Arms, The Cross Keys, The Collycroft Goose, The Royal Oak, The Prince Of Wales, JB ' S, Littleworks ( Re-Opened as Jack's Entertainment Club ) and The Cricketers Arms in Collycroft.

Examples include the various sides affiliated to larger clubs, such as the club MCC sides and county " Gentlemen of " sides that often play against schools ; school old boy sides, such as Eton Ramblers and Harrow Wanderers, which often play in the Cricketers Cup ; and amateur clubs such as the Free Foresters, I Zingari and the XL Club.

Frindall's other works include the Wisden Book of Test Cricket ; the Playfair Cricket Annual, which he edited for 23 years, from 1986 until his death ; the Wisden Book of Cricket Records ; the Guinness Book of Cricket-Facts and Feats ; and the ' Cricket records ' section of the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, which he wrote for several years.

The first-class career statistics quoted in this article do not include one match whose first-class status is disputed, but which is included in publications such as Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack and the Playfair Cricket Annual.

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – R. E. Foster, Schofield Haigh, George Herbert Hirst, Tom Taylor, John Tunnicliffe

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – David Denton, Walter Lees, George Thompson, Joe Vine, Levi Wright

* Wisden Five All – Round Cricketers – George Giffen, Alec Hearne, Stanley Jackson, Harry Trott, Ted Wainwright

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Arthur Gilligan, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay, Cec Parkin, Maurice Tate

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Major Booth, George Gunn, Bill Hitch, Albert Relf, Lionel Tennyson

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – George Geary, Harold Larwood, Jack Mercer, Bert Oldfield, Bill Woodfull

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Leslie Ames, George Duckworth, Maurice Leyland, Sam Staples, Jack White

In 1928, Frank Watson and Ernest Tyldesley scored over 2, 000 runs each and George Duckworth claimed 107 victims and earned recognition as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year.

There are four public houses: The Plume of Feathers, The Old George, The Green Man and The Cricketers.

* Wisden ( Five All-Round Cricketers ) – George Giffen, Alec Hearne, Stanley Jackson, Harry Trott, Ted Wainwright

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.

In 1995, he was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

* 1978 Elected one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.

He was awarded an OBE in that year and in 1962 was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Following his " Indian Summer ", Grace was the sole recipient of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year award for 1896, the first of only three times that Wisden has restricted the award to a single player, there being normally five recipients.

He was supported in his view by Lillywhite's Guide to Cricketers ( 1865 edition ) which included his innings at Hove in a list called Scores of 100 or more made since 1850 in first-class matches.

Ashley-Cooper who produced a list of season-by-season figures to supplement Grace's obituary in the 1916 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack.

In the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, Grace was selected by Neville Cardus as one the Six Giants of the Wisden Century.

* Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack – W. G. Grace centenary

This outstanding start to his career earned Taylor nomination as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1990.

In the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, Bradman was selected by Neville Cardus as one the Six Giants of the Wisden Century.

In 2000, Bradman was selected by cricket experts as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century.

Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and now called Addington Palace, dominates the village above the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church and the ' Cricketers ' pub.

The hunt used to meet outside the pub, The Cricketers which has reverted to its former name once again after a temporary change of name.

Gower was selected to play for the England Young Cricketers in 1976 against the West Indies equivalent team.

Nothing in the air, everything copybook .” He ended the series with 542 runs at 77. 42 and was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

The following year, the series of articles appeared as The Cricketers of My Time as part of an instructional book entitled The Young Cricketer's Tutor.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

By the time his son Abraham was born, Thomas owned two farms, several town lots, livestock, and horses.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

* The house in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 is preserved as Casa Buonaparte, and his associations with the town are everywhere emphasized by street-names and statues.

* Mike Duxbury, footballer, was born in the town

* Mystic Meg, astrologer, born in the town as Margaret Anne Lake in 1952

St Athanasius was born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur ca.

St Athanasius was an Egyptian born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur.

Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania ) on March 25, 1881.

Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.

Chiang was born in Xikou, a town approximately 30 kilometers southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

He was born c. 376, in the small town of Theodosios, Egypt, near modern day El-Mahalla El-Kubra.

The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.

Husserl was born in 1859 in Prostějov (), a town in the Bohemian province of Moravia, that was then in the Austrian Empire, after 1918 in Czechoslovakia, and since 1993 in the Czech Republic.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

Ennius was born at Rudiae, an old Italian ( predominantly Oscan ) town historically founded by the Messapians.

El Cid was born 1043 AD in Vivar, also known as Castillona de Bivar, a small town about six miles north of Burgos, the capital of Castile.

He was presumably born in the town which he lived most of his adult life, Caesarea Maritima.

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey.

Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis ( the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, which had come into Roman hands only in 298 ).

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867 and named Frank Lincoln Wright.

The birthplace of FDR at SpringwoodRoosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York.

Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, a port town in the south of France on the Bay of Biscay, on 30 June 1801.

He was born and raised in Weston Favell, then a small village near the English town of Northampton in which Crick ’ s father and uncle ran the family ’ s boot and shoe factory.