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CONTENTS Part One – Comment

Notes by the Editor

When cricket lost its innocence by Nagraj Gollapudi and Scyld Berry 25 THE ASHES

How we won the Ashes by Andrew Strauss

P The coach’s view by Andy Flower

A particularly Australian mongrel by Michael Parkinson

Glazed, not gimlet-eyed… by Gideon Haigh

Pitching for change by Justin Langer

“We were prisoners no longer” by Stephen Chalke

This little social heaven by Ivo Tennant

From church to Chappell by Tanya Aldred

Bizarre and short-sighted by Duncan Fletcher

An endangered species by Gerald Mortimer

Capturing cricket’s future

A fast track to the top by Scyld Berry

THE LEADING CRICKETER IN THE WORLD

Virender Sehwag by Scyld Berry

FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR

Stuart Broad by Paul Newman

Michael Clarke by Malcolm Conn

Graham Onions by Tim Wellock

Matt Prior by Robin Martin-Jenkins

Graeme Swann by Alec Swann

The Wisden Test XI by Scyld Berry

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Part Two – Records and Registers

Features of 2009 98

Contents

First-class

List A one-day

List A Twenty20

Test (overall)

Test cricketers

Current players

Women players

RECORDS

111

117

156

159

161

Test (series by series)

One-day international

Twenty20 international

Miscellaneous

Women’s Test and ODI

BIRTHS AND DEATHS

317 Other notables

REGISTERS

403

424 Cricketers of the Year, 1889–2010

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291

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312

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Part Three – English and European Cricket From shambles to Shangri-La by Vic Marks 430 England players 435 England Test, ODI and T20I averages 448

First-class averages

Scores of 100 and over

STATISTICS

451

458 Ten wickets in a match

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN ENGLAND

England v West Indies

England v Australia

P How they measured up

P The final session at Cardiff

P Sizing it all up Down Under

ICC World Twenty20

ICC Women’s World Twenty20

463

479

482

497

514

527

560

Review and statistics

Derbyshire

Durham

Essex

Glamorgan

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

LV= COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

566

578

592

606

620

633

646

660

674

687

Middlesex

Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

ONE-DAY COUNTY COMPETITIONS

Friends Provident Trophy 821 Twenty20 Cup 843 NatWest Pro40

The Universities

MCC

Minor Counties

Second Elevens

League cricket

P A win on aggregate

Club Championship and

Cockspur Cup

OTHER ENGLISH CRICKET

882

897

899

906

911

912

Npower Village Cup

England Under-19 v

Bangladesh Under-19

Youth cricket

Schools cricket

Women’s cricket

921

462

701

715

729

742

755

768

781

795

808

866

922

924

930

931

973

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