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CONTENTS Part One – Comment

Notes by the Editor

THE ENGLANDCAPTAINCY

Littered with sad captains by Simon Barnes

Losing the X-factor by Michael Vaughan

Brief encounter by Mike Atherton

It’s Wednesday, it must be… dunno by Matthew Engel

The Ashes masters by David Frith

You’ve never got enough by Nasser Hussain

􏰁 Mark Ramprakash in figures

􏰁 Graeme Hick in figures

Decline of a proud tradition by Dean Wilson

FIVECRICKETERSOFTHEYEAR

James Anderson by Andy Wilson

Dale Benkenstein by John Westerby

Mark Boucher by Neil Manthorp

Neil McKenzie by Colin Bryden

Claire Taylor by Scyld Berry

Captain, Kolpak, Colt by Tanya Aldred

Imperial… International… Independent? by Gideon Haigh

The Wisden Test XI by Scyld Berry

THELEADINGCRICKETERINTHEWORLD

Virender Sehwag by Ravi Shastri

THEINDIANPREMIERLEAGUE

Flight Twenty20 takes off by Lawrence Booth

􏰁 Squads and auction fees

A Lyon-hearted experiment by David Foot

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Part Two – Records and registers

Contents

First-class

List A one-day

List A Twenty20

Test (overall)

Features of 2008 112

RECORDS

123

129

166

169

171

Test (series by series)

One-day international

Twenty20 international

Miscellaneous

Women’s Test and ODI

212

302

317

319

323

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BIRTHS ANDDEATHS

326 Other notables

Current players

Leading women players

REGISTERS

410

429 Cricketers of the Year, 1889–2009

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406

430

Part Three – English and European cricket

The England team in 2008 by Mike Selvey

England players in 2008

England Test and ODI averages in 2008

434

439

449

First-class averages

Scores of 100 and over

STATISTICS

451

458 Ten wickets in a match

461

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN ENGLAND

England v New Zealand 463 England v South Africa 493 􏰁 Michael Vaughan resigns 498

Bangladesh A in Ireland and

England

526

LVCOUNTYCHAMPIONSHIP

Lies, damned lies… and

attendance figures

Review and statistics

Derbyshire

Durham

Essex

Glamorgan

532

533

548

563

576

590

􏰁 Captain, my captain 601 Gloucestershire 602 Hampshire 616 􏰁 Twenty20 Floodlit

Challenge

629

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Middlesex

Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

630

644

657

670

684

697

711

725

740

754

767

781

Friends Provident

Trophy

Twenty20 Cup

ONE -DAYCOUNTYCOMPETITIONS

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815

􏰁 Twenty20 and the maw

of Mammon

NatWest Pro40

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