2009
The first Wisden under the new ownership of A&C Black (who also publish Who's Who and Whitaker's Almanack) reported on the explosion of Twenty20 cricket around the world, especially in India. Scyld Berry's Notes by the Editor deal with this "Twenty20 stampede" at length, and he also looks at the saga of the England captaincy (further explored later in the book with articles by Mike Atherton, Simon Barnes and Michael Vaughan), and suggests a novel way of speeding up over-rates. Berry also explains why, for the first time, one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year is a woman: Claire Taylor, the prolific batter who helped England win the women's Ashes in 2008, and also the World Cup shortly before the 2009 Almanack was published. For the first time, Wisden selects its Test XI for the year, while David Frith assesses "Ashes Masters" from England and Australia, and Nasser Hussain looks at the parallel careers of Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash - two giants of county cricket who found it hard to reproduce their best form at Test level.
Editor Scyld Berry
Pages 1680
Price £45
Almanack essays
A particularly Australian mongrel
Captain, Kolpak, Colt
It's Wednesday, it must be....dunno
Losing the X factor
Notes by the Editor
The annual overview of world cricket
The Ashes Masters
The best from England and Australia
The Wisden Test XI
Virender Sehwag
Series included
Asia Cup 2008
Australia v South Africa 2008-09
Bangladesh v New Zealand 2008-09
England v New Zealand 2008
India v England 2008-09
India v South Africa 2007-08
IPL 2008
New Zealand v England 2007-08
New Zealand v West Indies 2008-09
South Africa v West Indies 2007-08
The Stanford Super Series 2008-09
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