This month the Notables' Sports Project is celebrating the sport of Cricket! (As in "Are those crickets I'm hearing from our American members?") Cricket may not be well-known in the United States, but it is actually the second most popular sport worldwide.
This month we are featuring 40 legendary cricket players, mostly from New Zealand, Australia, and the British Isles, but also a handful from South Africa, Barbados, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Trinidad. (Sorry, no American's this month!) Thank you to WikikTree member and cricket fan Jutta Beer for proposing this challenge and compiling this roster for me. Finding 40 individuals who meet our criteria for inclusion is not a simple task.
By special request, we have also included cricket broadcasting legend Brian Alexander as a special 41st notable - special thanks to his son and profile manager for opening his profile for us. Brian is already connected to the Big Tree, but perhaps we can add a few more official sources to his profile and maybe even increase his CC7 a bit.
On that note, a reminder that our Notables challenges are not strictly connection challenges. In fact, a number of our selected players are already connected to the Big Tree. Many of these players, however, also need significant work done on their profiles. We need biographies written, sources added, family members attached, copyright free images located, and sometimes just simple proofreading and profile cleanup. Our goal is to make each of these profiles a shining star of WikiTree. No improvement is too small to be a benefit, so please jump in to help wherever you can.
To participate in this month's challenge, simply click the link below and select the player whose profile you'd like to work on.
