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2007

Appropriately enough, cricket's largest personality, the retired Shane Warne, was chosen as the cover star for the 2007 edition. Another spinner, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, was chosen as the world's leading cricketer. Matthew Engel and 16 writers and historians also looked back retrospectively at who might have won the award - now in its fourth year - from 1900 to 2004, with Sir Donald Bradman coming out on top. Paul Collingwood, Monty Panesar, Mark Ramprakash, Mohammad Yousuf and Mahela Jayawardene were named as the five Cricketers of the Year, while England's lamentable Ashes performance - "the baggy greenwash" - received lengthy dissection and condemnation. 2006's experimental large-format edition was also continued.
Editor Matthew Engel
Pages 1664
Price £40

Almanack essays

Notes by the Editor

A question of numbers

Cow corner

Cricket round the world

In praise of Kolpaks

Kenyan cricket in 2006

Lot one: a scrap of paper

Muttiah Muralitharan

On the air, in the air

Site-seeing - cricket grounds in 2006

Sunny days no more glorious

The mighty craftsman

The ratings go bust

The universities in 2006

The Wisden Forty

Touch players, and touched journalists

What Bradman never knew

Willow pattern

Series included

Australia v England 2006-07

Australia v South Africa, 2005-06

Bangladesh v Australia, 2005-06

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka, 2005-06

Bangladesh v Zimbabwe, 2006-07

DLF Cup in Abu Dhabi, 2005-06 (India v Pakistan)

DLF Cup in Malaysia, 2006-07 (A/ I/ WI)

England v Pakistan, 2006

England v Sri Lanka, 2006

ICC Champions Trophy, 2006-07

India v England, 2005-06

New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 2006-07

New Zealand v West Indies, 2005-06

Pakistan v India, 2005-06

Pakistan v West Indies, 2006

South Africa v Australia, 2005-06

South Africa v India, 2006

South Africa v New Zealand, 2005-06

South Africa v Zimbabwe, 2006-07

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2005-06

Sri Lanka v South Africa, 2006

The Commonwealth Bank Series, 2006-07 (A/E/NZ)

The Unitech Cup in Sri Lanka, 2006 (SL/I/SA)

VB Series, 2005-06 (A/SA/SL)

West Indies v India, 2005-06

West Indies v Zimbabwe, 2006



Five Cricketers of The Year




Mahela Jayawardene
Mark Ramprakash
Mohammad Yousuf
Monty Panesar
Paul Collingwood




Obituaries




Alec Coxon
Clyde Walcott
Fred Trueman
Geoff Griffin
Walter Hadlee
Wasim Raja
Obituaries index: A-E
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