The Wisden Cricketer - May 2008

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When Mark Ramprakash, Surrey's evergreen batsman, makes his third century this summer he will join a select band of 24 men who have scored 100 first-class hundreds. He will be the first for a decade and the last possibly for ever

Mark Ramprakash is set to make his 100th hundred

Australian Kolpaks get closer

More non-overseas players from overseas?

How the pin-up grew up

James Anderson's journey from poster boy to spearhead

The Championship - what's the score?

The Wisden Cricketer: The true state of the county game

Rwanda - leaving France behind

Cricket in Africa finds another base

How cricket made Italian football

Serie A side Genoa support their cricketing roots

Was Barnes the greatest bowler of all time?

Frith's encounters: Sydney Barnes

Victory no passport to profit

Paul Coupar on successful counties with weak bank balances

Learning at Close quarters

Vic Marks on Brian Close

Record-breaking Wisdens

Almanack sale prices hit another high

Monty must find his inner artist

Kevin Mitchell on the challenges facing Monty Panesar

Discussions with The Don

David Frith on his memories of Bradman

A tank against pea-shooters

The Wisden Cricketer reflects on Graeme Hick's 405

Pace is back How the quicks got good again

The £380m circus: your guide to the IPL

Rod Marsh "Suddenly, I was a traitor"

The beauty of the bulge A celebration of the larger player