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CONTENTS

Part One – Comment

Wisden Honours

Notes by the Editor

Wisden competitions

All for one, one for all by Simon Hughes

PDefence – the best form of attack? by David Saker

CRICKET AND DEPRESSION

Long, cold lonely winter by Mike Brearley

PBiting back at the black dog by Dr Kamran Abbasi

An insider’s tale by Mike Yardy

The slow death of cricket’s class divide by Colin Shindler

Figuring it all out by Rob Smyth

FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR

Tim Bresnan by Tanya Aldred

Glen Chapple by Andy Wilson

Alastair Cook by Steve James

Alan Richardson by George Dobell

Kumar Sangakkara by David Hopps

The Leading Cricketer in the World

Kumar Sangakkara

Fear and loathing in Dubai by Gideon Haigh

PFive days is good for you by Richard Gillis

To make the old boy smile by Michael Henderson

The answer to a century-old mystery by Andrew Renshaw

The spoils of corruption by R. D. J. Edwards

PA trial by numbers

P“You were the orchestrator”

A cliche´’s last rites by Andy Bull

Where sport and politics collide by Kumar Sangakkara

Still on the outer ring by Philip Barker

POn target from the Pavilion End

Not picking the wrong’un by Jarrod Kimber

From culottes to contracts by Claire Taylor

A chill wind beyond the boundary by Peter Gibbs

An all-time great, and no denying by Shehan Karunatilaka

Part Two – The Wisden Review

Cricket books by Harry Pearson

Cricket in the media by John Crace

Cricket and blogs by S. A. Rennie

PTweets of the year by Jarrod Kimber

Retirements by Steve James

Cricketana by David Rayvern Allen

Cricket and the weather by Philip Eden

Cricket people by Ali Martin

Cricket and the law

Obituaries

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15

25

26

29

32

37

39

42

48

54

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Part Three – English and European Cricket

No. 1 – yet still so much to learn by Mike Selvey

England players by Lawrence Booth

STATISTICS

England Test, ODI and T20I averages 250 First-class averages 253 Scores of 100 and over

Ten wickets in a match

9

234

240

261

265

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN ENGLAND

England v Sri Lanka

PIt’s all about sound by Peter White

267

286

PFive stats you may have missed 288 England v India 298

PThe 2,000th Test… Or was it?

by Steven Lynch

309

PLord’s notes and quotes

310

PNottingham notes and quotes 314 PBirmingham notes and quotes 320 PThe Oval notes and quotes 323 PFive stats you may have missed 324 England v West Indies 333 Sri Lanka A in England 336

LV= COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

Review and statistics

Derbyshire

Durham

Essex

Glamorgan

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

PJack Foley by Mark Pennell 457 Lancashire 458

342

355

369

383

399

413

428

442

PHere comes the sun by Paul Edwards

Leicestershire

460

475

Middlesex

Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

PAdrian Shankar, Don Weekes and Walter Mitty by Hugh Chevallier

Yorkshire

490

504

517

531

545

559

573

587

594

602

Friends Life t20

ONE-DAY COUNTY COMPETITIONS

616 Clydesdale Bank 40

644

The Universities

MCC

MCC v Champion County

Minor Counties

Second Elevens

League cricket

Club Championship &

Cockspur Cup t20

OTHER ENGLISH CRICKET

672

686

687

689

693

695

Persimmon Village Cup

705

Disability cricket

707

England U19 v South Africa U19 708 Youth cricket 711 Schools cricket 712 Women’s cricket 752

703

EUROPEAN CRICKET

Cricket in Ireland

758

PTice’s corridor of certainty 760 Cricket in Scotland

Cricket in the Netherlands

762

765