Cricket Hall of fame to be launched (4 February 1999)
To mark the end of the century, an International Cricket Hall of Fame will be launched by the newly formed Federation of International Cricketers' Associations on April 9 to commemorate the greatest players in the history of the game
04-Feb-1999
4 February 1999
Cricket Hall of fame to be launched
Andrew Tong
To mark the end of the century, an International Cricket Hall of
Fame will be launched by the newly formed Federation of
International Cricketers' Associations on April 9 to commemorate
the greatest players in the history of the game.
A panel of 40 current and former players, from Sir Don Bradman
and Sir Garry Sobers to the nine Test captains, and other
luminaries such as former umpire Dickie Bird and cricket writer
E.W. Swanton, were asked to submit their personal top 50, which
were amalgamated into one list designed to show a "truly
international perspective". The panel based their choices on the
criterion of "any cricketers to have retired from international
cricket". To celebrate the launch, FICA has produced a
photographic collection of the first 50 entries to the hall of
fame. They hope to develop further projects, including a "coffee
table" book, television documentaries and dinners. FICA was set
up last year as a means of communication between the professional
players' associations around the world. The Association aims to
assist in commercial and funding ventures on behalf of the
various domestic representative players' bodies "to ensure the
development of education, accident insurance and benevolence
projects", while also representing them to the national governing
bodies and the ICC.