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This edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack marks the final pre- millennial outing of possibly the most well known of all sports books. 1999 sees the 136th edition and also the first to number over 1,500 pages, each crammed with essential and diverting information for cricket enthusiasts. Wisden remains the bible of our summer game and rightly so. Full not only of statistical information, it also captures many other aspects of the game, and in doing so manages to capture its true flavour. Match and tour records sit comfortably alongside a varied miscellany of features.

As ever, the editor’s notes open up an interesting selection of articles, presenting a straight bat to many of the game’s most important issues. Matthew Engel does not shy from the heart of today’s issues, tackling betting scandals, racial discrimination in the game, the role of the MCC and also looking forward to the 1999 World Cup to be played in England. Those following the editor in the batting order include Peter Roebuck (on Graeme Hick), Mihir Bose (on corruption in the game) and Mickey Stewart (on changing strategies in one day cricket). According to tradition, five cricketers of the year are honoured, and, perhaps surprisingly, two Englishmen are chosen. Few, though, could argue with the choice of the popular Darren Gough.

It will shock nobody that this edition stands comparison to its predecessors as the classic guide for followers of cricket. More than that, however, it also achieves the editor’s aim, consisting of so much more than just a statistical compendium for the cricket fanatic. Wisden can now claim to provide a fascinating read for cricket followers of all shapes and sizes. –Trevor Crowe

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1999

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The 17th edition of David Lemmon’s meticulously edited Cricket Year once again confirms its status as one of the most comprehensive digests of 1998’s cricketing season. Following Lemmon’s own Comment reflecting on the pros and cons of the season, Mike Procter offers a Foreword, reflecting on both the South African tour and the current state of the English game.

Then come the hard facts of the cricketing year, beginning with the ever-controversial Benson and Hedges Cricket Year World XI — though this year there seems very little to argue about in the selection, though some readers will undoubtedly disagree. What follows is what makes Lemmon’s volumes so distinctive: concise and comprehensive accounts of all the Test Matches, one-day internationals, and first-class seasons in every single Test-playing country in the 12 months preceding the end of the English seasons in mid-September 1998. It is this international coverage which remains one of the most satisfying dimensions of the Cricket Year, which enables the pundit to watch the rise of young stars from far afield, often years before their appearance on the international stage.

Published just six weeks after the end of the English season, David Lemmon’s Cricket Year always seems miraculous in its ability to digest the season and come up with such a handsome and lavishly illustrated book so quickly. This is the book for those of you eager for the facts and figures of the year’s cricket. –Jerry Brotton.

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Former England cricket coach David Lloyd answers some of the nagging questions that all fans of the sport have asked themselves since his decision to stand down from the post in 1999. Three years in one of sport’s most pressurised jobs left Lloyd–affectionately known as Bumble–to become vastly disillusioned at the hierarchical nature of English cricket’s upper echelons. Lloyd’s time, he writes, was being taken up more and more by the politics surrounding the sport–something which interested him much less than the more traditional day-to-day coaching side of the job. The former Lancashire batsman–and later coach of the same club–took over as boss of the national side in 1996 and set about the task of rebuilding the confidence in English cricket right down to grass roots level. But little did he know what would stand in his way. While it is true that Lloyd did not help his cause–with his forthright and frank rather than diplomatic attitude–it is clear his path to success was blocked deliberately, and the Accrington lad even goes so far as to say he feels he was ‘treated like a naughty schoolboy’. This book is a frank and enlightening account of Bumble’s three years in charge of England–and will clear up some of the up to now unanswered questions thrown up by his decision to quit as national coach. –Andrea Thursday

David Lloyd: The Autobiography – Anything But Murder

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