Contents

Part Three World View

World cricket in 2006 by Simon Wilde

Test averages, 2006

Index of Tests

The state of one-day cricket by Richard Hobson

Women’s cricket, 2006 by Sarah Potter

Part Four The Players

THE WISDEN FORTY

The Leading Cricketer in the World: Muttiah Muralitharan

by Simon Barnes

The Forty

Retirements

A question of numbers

Career figures

Births and deaths of Test cricketers

Register of current players

Register of leading women players

Cricketers of the Year, 1889–2007

Contents

First-class

Test (overall)

Test (series by series)

One-day international

Part Five Records

292

298

335

374

484

Twenty20 international

List A one-day

Twenty20

Miscellaneous

Women’s Test

9

178

187

189

191

194

196

198

214

219

221

222

269

287

288

498

500

503

505

509

Part Six English Cricket

The England team in 2006 by Scyld Berry

England players in 2006

England Test averages in 2006

512

518

527

STATISTICS

Features of 2006

First-class averages

528

533 Scores of 100 and over

Ten wickets in a match

541

547

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