Daniel Brettig
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Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfoAssistant editor Daniel Brettig had been a journalist for eight years when he joined ESPNcricinfo, but his fascination with cricket dates back to the early 1990s, when his dad helped him sneak into the family lounge room to watch the end of day-night World Series matches well past bedtime. Unapologetically passionate about indie music and the South Australian Redbacks, Daniel's chief cricketing achievement was to dismiss Wisden Almanack editor Lawrence Booth in the 2010 Ashes press match in Perth - a rare Australian victory that summer.
Srinath Sripath
Oct 16, 2018, 11:37 AMTwenty years ago, Mark Taylor declared overnight when he was batting on 334* in Peshawar. On a flat deck, and against a Pakistan attack lacking Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, he could have batted on and gone after Brian Lara's then world record Test score. Instead, "by about 2 am" on the morning of day three, Taylor decided not to go past Don Bradman's then Australian record. Here's how it all unfolded.
