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CONTENTS Part One – Comment

Wisden Honours

Notes by the Editor

THE PAKISTAN CASE

Asia’s illicit gambling dens by Rob Crilly

The power of denial by Osman Samiuddin

Say it ain’t so, Salman by Paul Kelso

P The spot-fixing timeline by James Coyne

SIR ALEC BEDSER

A nod of satisfaction by John Woodcock

The indefatigable giant by Sir John Major

Trevor Bailey: The man for every crisis by Christopher Martin-Jenkins

When everything just clicked by Nasser Hussain

From boot camp to think tank by Mark Wallace

Drive west, young man by Charlie Connelly

Adding some Glos? by David Foot

A midsummer night’s cricket by Tanya Aldred

Fascinating! It’s Ladies’ Day by Patrick Collins

The most extraordinary cricket tour by Prashant Kidambi

Cricket a` la Modi by James Astill

The box of tricks by Lawrence Booth

Wisden Test XI by Scyld Berry

The Wisden–MCC Photograph of the Year by Hugh Chevallier

THE LEADING CRICKETER IN THE WORLD

Sachin Tendulkar by Ramachandra Guha

CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR

Eoin Morgan by Angus Fraser

Chris Read by Vic Marks

Tamim Iqbal by Utpal Shuvro

Jonathan Trott by Paul Bolton

Why’s it gone there? by Alec Swann

A dance to the music of stats by Tim de Lisle

Part Two – The Wisden Review

Cricket Books by Gideon Haigh

Cricket and the Media by Marcus Williams

Cricket and Film by Charles Barr

Cricket and Twitter by Jarrod Kimber

P Swann, Gul and other flights of fancy by Jarrod Kimber

Retirements by Steve James

P We all owe you one, Fred by Ed Smith

Cricketana by David Rayvern Allen

Cricket Equipment by Norman Harris

Cricket and the Weather by Philip Eden

Cricket Grounds by Ivo Tennant

Cricket People by Lawrence Booth

Cricket and the Law

Obituaries

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Part Three – The Ashes

Australia v England by Mark Nicholas

P How they measured up

First Test by Robert Craddock

P Brisbane notes and quotes

Second Test by Matthew Engel

P Adelaide notes and quotes

Third Test by Scyld Berry

P Perth notes and quotes

Fourth Test by Gideon Haigh

P Melbourne notes and quotes

Fifth Test by Mike Selvey

P Sydney notes and quotes

Better in every department by Michael Vaughan

Outflanked by the master of strategy by Kerry O’Keeffe

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Part Four – English and European Cricket

Stable? Stupendous! by Vic Marks

England players

England Test, ODI and T20I averages

First-class averages

Scores of 100 and over

STATISTICS

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279 Ten wickets in a match

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England v Bangladesh

England v Australia

Pakistan v Australia

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN ENGLAND

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England v Pakistan

India A and West Indies A

in England

Review and statistics

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Durham

Essex

Glamorgan

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

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Northamptonshire

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Sussex

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Worcestershire

Yorkshire

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ONE-DAY COUNTY COMPETITIONS

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