Colombo: The International Cricket Council have inducted West Indies batting legend Brian Lara and England's woman player Enid Bakewell into the Hall of Fame today.
“West Indies prolific batsman Brian Lara will join the 66 male members of the Hall of Fame while England’s Enid Bakewell becomes the third women to be inducted,” an ICC release said.
Lara and Blakewell will be formally inducted on September 15th during the LG ICC Awards at Waters Edge, here.
Two more players will be inducted and their names will be announced by ICC later this year.
Lists of the players who have been inducted so far
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame – initial inductees (55):
Sydney Barnes, Bishan Bedi, Alec Bedser, Richie Benaud, Allan Border, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Donald Bradman, Greg Chappell, Ian Chappell, Denis Compton, Colin Cowdrey, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Lance Gibbs, Graham Gooch, David Gower, WG Grace, Tom Graveney, Gordon Greenidge, Richard Hadlee, Walter Hammond, Neil Harvey, George Headley, Jack Hobbs, Michael Holding, Leonard Hutton, Rohan Kanhai, Imran Khan, Alan Knott, Jim Laker, Harold Larwood, Dennis Lillee, Ray Lindwall, Clive Lloyd, Hanif Mohammad, Rodney Marsh, Malcolm Marshall, Peter May, Javed Miandad, Keith Miller, Bill O’Reilly, Graeme Pollock, Wilfred Rhodes, Barry Richards, Vivian Richards, Andy Roberts, Garfield Sobers, Brian Statham, Fred Trueman, Derek Underwood, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Frank Woolley, Frank Worrell.
2009 Inductees:
Herbert Sutcliffe, Steve Waugh, Wasim Akram, Victor Trumper, Clarrie Grimmett.
2010 Inductees
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Ken Barrington, Courtney Walsh, Joel Garner.
2011 Inductees
Belinda Clark, Frederick Spofforth, Curtly Ambrose, Alan Davidson.
2012 Inductees
Enid Bakewell and Brian Lara
By Indian Sports News Network
