Columnists love an argument. One way to initiate it is to choose an all-time best team. Everybody in sport is a secret selector with his own list. But every selection admits of alternatives. Few players are guaranteed to be on everybody’s list.
At the turn of the century, Don Bradman chose an all-time Test team. About a decade later, to mark its 150th anniversary, Wisden Almanack did the same. The two lists had just three names in common: Bradman, Garry Sobers and Sachin Tendulkar. These are likely to be on most lists. Yet, the great English all-rounder Frank Woolley who played against Bradman, didn’t have him in his list.
