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The First Wisden Cricketers of the Year — Six Great Bowlers, 1889
England / Australia
1889-04-15
Wisden's 1889 Almanack inaugurated what became the most prestigious individual award in cricket: the Cricketers of the Year. The first list — picked by editor Charles Pardon to mark the bowler-dominated 1888 summer — named six Great Bowlers: George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs (England), Charlie Turner, JJ Ferris and Sammy Woods (Australia). Between them they had taken 1,272 wickets in 1888 at 11.89 apiece.
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