Wisden overview
Tim May was a talented and combative offspinner who, because of misfortune with injury and a lack of requisite athleticism, had only a stuttering career for Australia. He saw it as his role to attack by bowling wider of off stump and spinning the ball further than his traditional English counterparts. In mid-career he lost motivation and ultimately his place in the South Australian team, but he returned in 1992-93 to take an extraordinary 5 for 9 against West Indies at Adelaide, then made a gutsy 42 not out to take Australia within one run of a series win. He took five wickets twice more that calendar year, but then his career petered out. His afterlife has been characteristically aggressive; he led the nascent Australian Cricketers' Association to the threshold of a strike in 1997 on the way to winning a new and richer deal for players. Presently, peace reigns. Greg Baum

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