The Spin | From Bradman to Hetmyer, the best writers’ judgment stands out – mostly

Be it Cardus introducing Bradman, Blofeld on Botham or Selvey singling out Tendulkar, one of the game’s thrills is spotting rising talent, but we don’t always get it right“It is curious,” Neville Cardus wrote in this newspaper in December 1928, “how the sense of style and class will make itself felt even through a cable read thousands of miles from the spot.”This, in the end, is perhaps the most important job of the cricket writer, and what makes reporting mor