for when we reread Against the Day. (when life freezes over)

[Mark Kohut]

The *Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Leading_Cricketer_in_the_World>* is
an annual cricket <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket> award
selected by *Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers%27_Almanack>*. It was
established in 2004, to select the best cricketer based upon their
performances anywhere in the world in the previous calendar year. Since
1889, *Wisden* has published a list of Cricketers of the Year
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers_of_the_Year>, typically
selecting five cricketers that had the greatest impact during the previous
English cricket season. Between 2000 and 2003, the scope was widened to
include performances anywhere in the world, but in 2004 it reverted to
being based on the English season, and a Leading Cricketer in the World was
also selected. An Australian, Ricky Ponting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ponting> was chosen as the first
winner of the award. In the 2007 edition of *Wisden*, a notional list of
previous winners, spanning from 1900 to 2002, was published. A
sixteen-person panel helped to select the winners, which the editor Matthew
Engel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Engel> described as the
cricketer that "would have been the first name down in the World XI to play
Mars". (*Full list...
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Leading_Cricketer_in_the_World>*)
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