LONDON, (Reuters) – The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has broken with tradition and named only four cricketers of the year for its 2011 edition because of the Pakistan spot-fixing scandal, editor Scyld Berry said yesterday.
The publication has named five players since 1926 but this year only Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal and England’s Eoin Morgan, Chris Read and Jonathan Trott made the shortened list.
Three Pakistan players Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt were banned for a minimum of five years each for manipulating incidents in
