User:CricketBot/longarticles

Here is a list of the longest cricket biographies, sorted by length.

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The list

23910 ⇑ Ravi Shastri
23905 ⇑ Brian Close
11051 W. G. Grace
10278 ⇑ Julius Caesar (cricketer)
10048 ⇑ Wilfred Rhodes
9621 ⇓ Sachin Tendulkar
8821 ⇑ Ian Botham
8716 ⇑ Kepler Wessels
8663 ⇑ Glenn McGrath
8575 ⇑ Imran Khan
8564 ⇑ Brian Statham
8435 ⇑ Shane Warne
8406 ⇑ Michael Vaughan
8281 ⇑ Brian Lara
8137 Mike Atherton
8119 Dennis Lillee
8035 ⇑ Donald Bradman
7917 ⇑ Herbert Sutcliffe
7507 ⇑ Muttiah Muralitharan
6814 ⇑ Palwankar Baloo
6682 ⇓ Sourav Ganguly
6671 Rahul Dravid
6634 Douglas Marillier
6544 Adam Gilchrist
6456 Ricky Ponting
6306 Graham Dilley
6306 Maharajkumar of Vizianagram
6207 Kevin Pietersen
6187 George Lohmann
6062 Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne)
5994 Brett Lee
5918 George Geary
5844 Steve Waugh
5827 Fred Titmus
5798 Tom Richardson
5795 James Anderson (cricketer)
5783 Malcolm Marshall
5781 ⇑ A. E. J. Collins
5675 Andrew Flintoff
5428 William Lockwood
5351 Charles Studd
5018 Andrew Strauss
5000 Norman Gifford
4992 Douglas Jardine
4859 Wasim Akram
4851 Thomas Wass
4828 Hugh Bartlett
4809 Geoffrey Boycott
4753 Johnny Wardle
4674 Jack Birkenshaw
4616 Len Hutton
4586 Roy Kilner
4583 Tony Greig
4564 Winston Davis
4535 Bill Whitty
4534 Frank Cameron
4464 Javed Miandad
4442 Gregor MacGregor (cricketer)
4405 John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
4374 Albert Hallam
4302 Chetan Chauhan
4254 Charles Coventry (Zimbabwean cricketer)
4239 Darren Lehmann
4216 Arthur Fielder
4202 Kapil Dev
4154 Charlie Townsend
4146 Frank Foster
4104 ⇑ Conrad Hunte
4077 Charles Turner (cricketer)
4067 Graeme Hick
4025 Colin Blythe
4013 Anil Kumble
3905 Sammy Woods
3872 Tich Freeman
3865 William Ashley
3852 Phil Newport
3835 Kabir Ali
3828 Blair Hartland
3818 Lance Gibbs
3800 Leslie Townsend
3744 Stan Nichols
3714 Aubrey Faulkner
3700 M.J. Gopalan
3671 David Hookes
3631 IL Bula
3613 Lord Frederick Beauclerk
3611 Alf Gover
3611 Mark Waugh
3591 Mark Robinson (cricketer)
3565 Sunil Gavaskar
3558 Keith Miller
3542 Schofield Haigh
3530 Eddie Barlow
3525 Budhi Kunderan
3509 Alan Mullally
3500 Ken Higgs
3495 John Davison
3472 Len Braund
3457 Alec Bedser
3456 Daryl Tuffey
3455 Waqar Younis
3454 Paul Collingwood
3445 Alphonso Theodore Roberts
3443 Ewart Astill
3439 Maurice Tate
3438 Frank Laver
3436 Rick Darling
3435 ⇓C.K. Nayudu
3433 Ranjitsinhji
3431 Jack Hearne (John William Hearne)
3428 Johnny Briggs
3425 Jim Phillips
3401 Courtney Walsh
3400 Dick Barlow
3307 Bob Crockett
3299 Sidath Wettimuny
3278 Eddie Gilbert (cricketer)
3277 Arthur Mold
3259 George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
3253 Ted Wainwright
3250 Madhavrao Scindia
3248 Douglas Hondo
3243 Phil Mead
3217 Ernest Tyldesley
3202 Richard Illingworth
3201 Vallance Jupp
3191 Inzamam-ul-Haq
3180 Roy Dias
3178 Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
3176 Bobby Peel
3175 Abdul Razzaq
3174 Fred Bakewell
3172 ⇑ Alf Valentine
3160 Major Booth
3140 Ben Smith
3139 Vijay Hazare
3105 Narendra Hirwani
3103 Marcus Trescothick
3077 Ian Peebles
3046 Jock Cameron
3032 Harold "Dickie" Bird
3023 Arjuna Ranatunga
3020 Bobby Abel
3013 Bill Bowes
2997 Johnny Tyldesley
2993 Charlie Parker (cricketer)
2984 Abdul Kardar
2980 Gary Kirsten
2978 Steve Harmison
2967 Roger Wijesuriya
2941 M. L. Jaisimha
2914 Virender Sehwag
2910 Ian Bell (cricketer)
2902 Frank Tarrant
2900 Herbert Strudwick
2894 Dominic Cork
2891 Shahid Afridi
2881 William Attewell
2866 Jasu Patel
2865 Bob Appleyard
2865 Charles Bannerman
2854 Bapu Nadkarni
2852 Hansie Cronje
2852 Syed Mohammad Hadi
2846 Patsy Hendren
2843 Hedley Verity
2831 Syed Kirmani
2830 Yashpal Sharma
2818 Dilip Sardesai
2815 Ashok Mankad
2806 Dwayne Bravo
2802 Deepak Shodhan
2793 Mike O'Shea
2780 Martin van Jaarsveld
2767 Sanath Jayasuriya
2761 Chris Schofield
2761 Duleep Mendis
2736 George Thompson (cricketer)
2728 Ian Healy
2724 Jack Mercer (cricketer)
2715 Tom Goddard
2713 Colin Cowdrey
2712 Frederick Martin
2694 William Scotton
2693 Jack Crawford (cricketer)
2691 Razor Smith
2688 Andrew Symonds
2681 Gilbert Jessop
2671 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2646 Tom Taylor (cricketer)
2642 Nana Joshi
2627 Brian Johnston
2624 Javagal Srinath
2606 Derek Shackleton
2605 Bill Copson
2603 Bill Edrich
2598 Jack Russell (Essex cricketer)
2586 Navjot Singh Sidhu
2578 Michael Hussey
2574 Abdul Qadir
2571 Richie Benaud
2568 Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
2567 J. G. Greig
2563 Frank Mitchell
2553 Chris Read
2532 Ranjan Madugalle
2528 Ted Peate
2523 Jackie McGlew
2520 Patterson Thompson
2515 Clem Hill
2513 Irfan Pathan
2481 Albert Trott
2476 Jimmy Adams
2475 Tony Lock
2452 Wazir Ali
2451 Derek Randall
2446 Krishnamachari Srikkanth
2446 Ray Price (cricketer)
2431 Imran Farhat
2424 Geoff Marsh
2422 Tom Hayward
2420 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
2406 Matthew Maynard
2391 Warren Bardsley
2366 Allan Border
2366 Denis Compton
2359 Betty Wilson
2358 Andy Sandham
2358 Mark Butcher
2351 Edward Tylecote
2350 Thomas Lord
2348 Cyril Washbrook
2345 Jeff Wilson (sportsman)
2343 Vinoo Mankad
2334 Dick Pilling
2333 Percy Holmes
2326 Kiran More
2326 Maurice Tremlett
2324 Jonathan Agnew
2317 Brendon Kuruppu
2317 Eric Rowan
2305 Abid Ali
2303 Irvine Shillingford
2301 Andy Goram
2299 Tony Reid
2298 Fred Spofforth
2298 Mfuneko Ngam
2297 Chetan Sharma
2296 C. B. Fry
2294 Arthur Carr
2284 Balwinder Sandhu
2269 Colin Egar
2262 Khurram Khan
2251 Buster Nupen
2245 Neville Cardus
2244 Alan Butcher
2241 Raman Lamba
2240 Robert Bush
2240 Sandy Singleton
2239 Nathan Astle
2233 ⇓Lala Amarnath
2224 Hemu Adhikari
2224 Shivnarine Chanderpaul
2213 Eddie Paynter
2202 Dave Nourse
2199 Peter Chingoka
2191 Ted McDonald
2187 Nadine George
2184 David Denton
2182 Bill Alley
2177 Mahela Jayawardene
2175 Fuller Pilch
2172 Ric Charlesworth
2171 Dirk Wellham
2170 George Coulthard
2167 Dattu Phadkar
2165 Devon Malcolm
2157 Gavin Hamilton
2151 John Ferris
2149 Harold Larwood
2149 Ian Salisbury
2138 Cotar Ramaswami
2138 Rikki Clarke
2136 Fred Trueman
2129 Phil Simmons
2126 Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
2126 David Shepherd
2125 George Alfred Wilson
2123 Jack Blackham
2122 A.G. Kripal Singh
2122 George Ulyett
2102 Alan Knott
2092 Hanif Mohammad
2077 Richard Hadlee
2076 Ray Bright
2075 David Sheppard
2075 Matthew Elliott
2061 Chris Harris (cricketer)
2057 Jack Worrall
2055 Tom Wills
2054 Simon Katich
2050 Ashley Giles
2038 William Beldham
2036 Bill Merritt
2036 Fred Rumsey
2033 Matthew Mason
2022 Bill Frindall
2021 Darren Gough
2021 James Langridge
2021 Rusi Modi
2015 Alester Maregwede
2015 John Sharpe (cricketer)
2014 Kim Hughes
2013 Learie Constantine
2002 Michael Clarke (cricketer)