Wisden 2007, the most up-to-date ever, reports on the whole of England’s baffling winter tour: the disaster of the Ashes, and their improbable – almost impossible – triumph in the one-day series. Wisden gets behind the headlines, and asks what went wrong, and what went right.
And the game’s best writers cover the rest of the cricketing year too: all the stories you would expect, and some you wouldn’t.
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· Mike Atherton pays tribute to Shane Warne
· Michael Parkinson recalls “t’greatest fast bowler”, Fred Trueman
· Ian Chappell, Simon Hughes and John Woodcock analyse The Ashes
· Simon Barnes on The Leading Cricketer in the World
· Clement Freud reports on The Day They Stopped Playing
· Marcus Berkmann on cricket in mid-ocean
PLUS
· The Leading Cricketers of the World: A unique listing of the greatest players for each year since 1900
· Test Match Special at 50: Gillian Reynolds and Jim Maxwell salute a great radio institution.
AND, the most puzzling question of all, Why do they keep getting injured?
Wisden: the essential companion for every follower of cricket.