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There have been a fair few double internationals in cricket/football and cricket/rugby, but that's not possible anymore because the seasons and preseasons overlap too much. Presumably there are equivalent pairings in other sports but I wouldn't know (or to be frank, care) about those. I've...

There is an argument that Mike Atherton has made in the past, that when the general standard of a sport is lower, more players will have outstanding records, since it's easier for a good player to prosper when everybody else is relatively rubbish. I think in a cricket context this generally...

My favourite Trumper story (that actually relates to his ability rather than him just being the sort of lovely guy who'd see a paperboy stood in the rain at 10pm and would buy his whole stock so he could go home) has him gifting a bat to Aubrey Faulkner, who was a properly good test match...

Even if I restrict myself to cricketers, I'd throw in Basil D'Oliveira as somebody who actually did cause a diplomatic rupture between two countries. And took far more wickets than Bradman while he was at it.

I think I'm right in saying that Bradman is, statistically speaking, the most outstanding player from any sport (taken over any sort of lengthy career), since he averaged about 1.5 times more than literally everybody else who's ever played the game. So in a sense he's a "correct" answer. On the...