KATYA WITNEY
Katya Witney, staff writer @wisdencricket, on the packed cricketing schedule

Being a professional cricketer is a dream for so many, from children to those who lament a life that could have been if it hadn’t been for that pesky back injury that curtailed what could have been a record-breaking career. Such is the pedestal we put our sports players on – as freaks of nature, carving superhuman feats into their privileged narrative, that it’s jarring when they force us to recognise their own humanity.
This week, the PCA released statistics from a study of professional cricketers (s...