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CONTENTS

Part One Comment

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Cricket’s Migrant Soul by Robert Winder

The Cricket Test… and the Boxing Test

ENGLAND’S REVIVAL

The Only Way Was Up by Mike Selvey

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28

33

Goodbye Gin and Tonic: an Insider’s View by Malcolm Ashton 37 The Man Who Made Cricket Glow by Richie Benaud 41 THE TV EXECUTIVE’S DECISION IS FINAL

The Power of Babel by Mihir Bose

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Hello Sky, Goodbye World by Steven Barnett

Another Country: Village Cricket Splits in Two by Alan Lee

FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR

Ashley Giles by Vic Marks

Steve Harmison by Tanya Aldred

Robert Key by Hugh Chevallier

Andrew Strauss by Jon Henderson

Marcus Trescothick by David Foot

Bent: A History of Chucking by David Frith

Fifteen All: Why the ICC Found a New Angle

Probables and Improbables

The Greatest Editor by Matthew Engel

Sydney Pardon in Wisden

Breaking the Silence by David Rayvern Allen

Hansie: The Making of a Martyr by Rob Steen

The Tragedy that Brought Us Together by Charlie Austin

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Part Two World View

World Cricket in 2004: The Year of the Big Two by Simon Wilde 92 The View from the Top: A Golden Age, Yellowing at the Edges

by Gideon Haigh

International Women’s Cricket in 2004: Booming or Boring?

by Sarah Potter

Test Averages, 2004

Index of Tests

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Part Three The Players

THE WISDEN FORTY

The Leading Cricketer in the World: Shane Warne by Greg Baum 112 The Forty 114 Retirements: Twilight of the Revolutionaries by Angus Fraser 131 Births and Deaths of Test Cricketers 135 Births and Deaths of Other Notables 181 Cricketers of the Year, 1889–2005 192

Contents

First-Class

Test (overall)

Test (series by series)

Part Four Records

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202

241

282

One-Day International

List A One-Day

Miscellaneous

Women’s Cricket

Part Five English Cricket

England in 2004: The Blessed Michael Inherits the Earth

by Scyld Berry

England Test Averages in 2004

England Players in 2004

STATISTICS

Features of 2004

First-Class Averages

425

430 Scores of 100 and over

Ten Wickets in a Match

389

401

403

407

410

416

417

438

443

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN ENGLAND

New Zealanders in England 445 West Indians in England 466 NatWest Series (E/NZ/WI) 492 Videocon Cup

(held in NL: A/I/P)

504

Indians in England

508

NatWest Challenge

509

NatWest International (A/P) 514 ICC Champions Trophy 515 Sri Lanka A in England 539

FRIZZELL COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

Review and Statistics 544

Derbyshire 556 Durham 570 Essex 585 Glamorgan 599 Gloucestershire 613

The Revd Archibald Fargus 624

Hampshire 628 Kent 642

The End of the Lime

644

Lancashire 658 Leicestershire 672 Middlesex 687

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