The highlights of this week’s action from across the globe
STARC AND DEEPTI CLEAN UP Mitch Starc is Wisden’s Leading Men’s Cricketer in the World, rounding off an astonishing year, and Deepti Sharma is the Leading Women’s Player after her role in India’s World Cup victory on home soil last November.
The awards were announced before the publication of the 163rd edition of the Wisden Almanack last Wedenesday. Starc, 36, took 55 Test wickets at 17.32 in 11 Tests in the calendar year, including a career-best of 6 for 9 against West Indies. He then took ...