Vocabulary no other rotation in the family owns. Bowling style is a group — four off-spinners, four quicks — and so is a player’s role in the side. Around them sit the teams played for, the competitions entered, the honours won and the runs or wickets accumulated.
Four bowlers who deliver the ball the same way. It is the most cricket-specific category on any board in this family: it has no equivalent in the other sports, and it separates the follower of the game from the follower of the scoreboard immediately.
They are, because the record keeps them separate. A milestone group states the format it belongs to — a one-day run total is a different achievement from the same number in the longer game — so a group never quietly adds two formats together.
Domestic ones as well as international, including the long-established county game. A competition group asks where a player plied their trade rather than who they represented, which is a genuinely different question in this sport.
The named international awards, each as a set of four recipients. As everywhere else in the family the membership is a matter of record rather than an opinion about who was the finer player.
