"Wisden – 1997". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008. "The success of Sanath Jayasuriya in inspiring Sri Lanka to World Cup victory [i]n March 1996 also inspired a change of policy: he was chosen as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year even though he did not play in the English season."
content-ind.cricinfo.com
A. S. Dixon. "Cricketers of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 April 2008. "Also I have left out of my reckoning John Wisden, founder of the Almanack, to whose memory the whole feature was devoted in the Jubilee issue of 1913—he died in 1884." As such, he is not a true Cricketer of the Year, but is included here for the sake of comprehensiveness.
