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CONTENTS

Notes by the Editor

Part One Comment

BRADMAN CENTENARY

Capitalising on cricket by Carl Bridge

Thin-skinned, warm-hearted by Doug Insole

Woolmer: tragedy at the World Cup by Paul Newman

What Duncan did for us by Andrew Strauss

THREE ALL -TIME GREATS RETIRE

Gilly walks into the sunset by Ian Healy

Brian Lara: the entertainer departs by Mike Atherton

Glenn McGrath: the most unremarkable of remarkable bowlers

by Robert Craddock

FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR

Ian Bell by Lawrence Booth

Shivnarine Chanderpaul by Ian Bishop

Ottis Gibson by Tim Wellock

Ryan Sidebottom by Simon Hughes

Zaheer Khan by Pradeep Vijayakar

The county cricketers’ year by Tanya Aldred

The appeal of technology by David Frith

Only in Tassie by Mark Ray

Salmon at deep midwicket by Andrew Thomas

Gandhi: did he spin more than khadi? by Ramachandra Guha

Scratching a living by Nick Newman

NEVER A CRICKETER OF THE YEAR

Five who somehow missed out by Scyld Berry

Abdul Qadir by John Woodcock

Bishan Bedi by Michael Brearley

Wes Hall by Tony Cozier

Inzamam-ul-Haq by Simon Barnes

Jeff Thomson by Ian Chappell

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Part Two World View

World cricket in 2007 by Simon Wilde

Test averages, 2007

One-day international averages, 2007

Index of Test matches

Women’s cricket in 2007 by Sarah Potter

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Part Three The Players

THEWISDENFORTY

The Leading Cricketer in the World: Jacques Kallis

by Peter Roebuck

The Forty

Retirements by Steve James

􏰁 One of the game’s gentlemen

Career figures

Births and deaths of Test cricketers

Register of current players

Register of leading women players

Cricketers of the Year, 1889–2008

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Contents

First-class

List A one-day

Twenty20

Test (overall)

Part Four Records

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Test (series by series)

One-day international

Twenty20 international

Miscellaneous

Women’s Test

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Part Five English Cricket

The England team in 2007 by Mike Selvey

England players in 2007

England Test and one-day international averages in 2007

STATISTICS

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Features of 2007

First-class averages

Scores of 100 and over

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Ten Wickets in a Match 502

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET INENGLAND

England v West Indies

England v India

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533 Sri Lanka A in England 564

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