Kamran Abbasi Tanya Aldred Andy Arlidge Chris Aspin Philip Bailey Peter Bather Greg Baum Edward Bevan Paul Bolton Lawrence Booth Simon Briggs Kip Brook Robert Brooke Colin Bryden Don Cameron Tony Cozier John Curtis Gareth Davies Geoffrey Dean Ralph Dellor Norman de Mesquita Philip Eden

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Clive Ellis Matthew Engel John Etheridge Colin Evans Stephen Fay Paul Fearn David Foot Neville Foulger David Frith Nigel Fuller Andrew Gidley Julian Guyer Gideon Haigh David Hallett Catherine Hanley David Hardy Peter S. Hargreaves Norman Harris Les Hatton Roy Hattersley Simon Heffer Richard Hobson

Myles Hodgson Jim Holden Grenville Holland Richard Holt Simon Hughes Abid Ali Kazi Christopher Lane Neil Leitch David Llewellyn Steven Lynch John MacKinnon Neil Manthorp Keith Meadows Mohandas Menon Eric Midwinter R. Mohan Gerald Mortimer Francis Payne Gordon Phillips Derek Pringle Andrew Radd Mark Ray

Peter Roebuck Graham Russell Dicky Rutnagur Carol Salmon Samiul Hasan Andrew Samson Derek Scott Utpal Shuvro Jasmer Singh Anirban Sircar Rob Steen John Stern E. W. Swanton Pat Symes Sa’adi Thawfeeq Gerry Vaidyasekera Gordon Vince John Ward David Warner Tim Wellock Francis Wheen Steve Whiting

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Round the World: Anthony Adams, Musaji Banah, Saleh Banah, Alum Bati, Asad Beig, E. J. Cartledge, Kevin Chant, Michel Cogne, John Cribbin, Peter D. Eckersley, Geoff Edwards, Brian Fell, Tom Finlayson, Chris Frean, Simone Gambino, Bob Gibb, Ram Hiralal, Richard Illingworth, Norman M. Langer, John McKillop, Arfat Malik, Phil Marsdale, Basil Mathura, Pierre Naudi, Patrick Opara, David Parsons, Stanley Perlman, Laurie Pieters, Venu Ramadass, Bryan Rouse, Naoaki Saida, Fraser M. Simm, Mark Stafford, Derek Thursby, Mike Tsesmelis, Benedikt Waage, Colin Wolfe and Clive Woodbridge.

Thanks are accorded to the following for checking the scorecards of county and tourist matches: Keith Booth, John Brown, Len Chandler, Byron Denning, Jack Foley, Keith Gerrish, Sam Hale, Neil Harris, Brian Hunt, Vic Isaacs, David Kendix, Tony Kingston, David Norris, John Potter, Gerry Stickley, Gordon Stringfellow, David Wainwright, Alan West, Roy Wilkinson and Graham York.

The editor also acknowledges with gratitude assistance from the following: David Rayvern Allen, Neville Birch, Martin Braybrook, Carl Bridge, Gerry Byrne, Lynda Cole, Marion Collin, Brian Croudy, Prakash Dahatonde, Frank Duckworth, Robert Eastaway, M. L. Fernando, Ric Finlay, Christine Forrest, Bill Frindall, Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Ray Goble, Kate Hanson, Col. Malcolm Havergal, Keith Hayhurst, Brian Heald, Murray Hedgcock, Kay Hewat, Andrew Hignell, Robin Isherwood, Mohammad Ali Jafri, Emma John, Alan Jones, Rajesh Kumar, Stephanie Lawrence, Tessa Lecomber, Nirav Malavi, Mahendra Mapagunaratne, Ray Markham, William Martin, Jack Miller, Pamela Monkhouse, Diana Morris, Charles Oliver, Em Parkinson, John Plummer, S. Pervez Qaiser, John Ramsden, Huw Richards, Major R. W. K. Ross-Hurst, Chris Scott, Damian Sharp, Karen Spink, Bruce Talbot, Ivo Tennant, Charlie Wat, Wendy Wimbush, Danny Window and Peter Wynne-Thomas.

The production of Wisden would not be possible without the support and co-operation of many other cricket officials, writers and lovers of the game. To them all, many thanks.

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CONTENTS

Part One: Comment Notes by the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Sir Donald Bradman, AC, 1908–2001

A Personal Recollection by E. W. Swanton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bradman and the British by Richard Holt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Beyond the Legend by Gideon Haigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 To Be Disliked Again: Reflections on Yorkshire Cricket by Roy Hattersley . . . . . 32 Untouched by Fortune by Peter Roebuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 A Game in Flux

As Viewed from the Boundary by Simon Heffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 An Eye to the Future by Simon Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Second String, First Choice by Catherine Hanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Five Cricketers of the Year

Andy Flower by Keith Meadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Adam Gilchrist by Stephen Fay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Jason Gillespie by Mark Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 V. V. S. Laxman by Dicky Rutnagur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Damien Martyn by Derek Pringle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Part Two: The Players Test Cricketers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Births and Deaths of Past Cricketers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Register of Current Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Cricketers of the Year, 1889-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Part Three: Records Index of Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 First-Class Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Test Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Limited-Overs International Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Women’s Test Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Part Four: English Cricket in 2001 Features of 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Statistics

First-Class Averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Individual Scores of 100 and Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 Ten Wickets in a Match. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 The Pakistanis in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 The Australians in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 The NatWest Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 CricInfo County Championship

Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Derbyshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Essex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

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