Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket’s Greatest Players

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He played in the Ashes in Australia but has struggled for fitness of late, missing all three Tests in England's recent series defeat in the West Indies. The size of Wisden print runs is of considerable interest to collectors as rarity has a very strong influence on the value of individual editions. must have practised yoga. His fingers were wonderfully supple too, and part of his theatricality was fizzing the ball from one hand to the other before In 2020, given his raft of playing commitments, Mitchell and his wife, Amy, moved their two pre-school daughters, Addison and Lily, from Hamilton to Christchurch, where he scored his maiden Test century, against Pakistan in January 2021. Amy’s family is based there, providing a sturdy support network. referring to Zaheer or Turner. Actually Adelaide was a hoodoo ground for him. In January 1975 he was

Excellence in the previous English summer is the major criterion for inclusion in the Five, but not the only one. In fact, the award is a recognition of a player’s influence on the last English season, allowing Matthew Engel, editor of Wisden 1997, to select Sanath Jayasuriya, who had not played in England in the preceding year. However, his batting at the 1996 World Cup changed the shape of the one-day game for good. Merely competent in South Africa, the pain of being left out for the first Test of the English summer spurned Stuart Broad on to bowl perhaps as well as he has for England. He rediscovered which end of a bat to hold onto, scoring at above a run a ball for the qualification period. Ben Foakes brought up his second Test hundred with a phenomenal performance on day two of the second Test against South Africa Wisden honour for Dhawan, Edwards". Wisden India. 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2014 . Retrieved 9 April 2014. Foakes was part of an England Test side that had an unprecedented home Test summer. They won six out of their seven Test matches and underwent a remarkable transformation under Brendon McCullum and Stokes. He was a crucial part of two of those wins, the first against New Zealand at Lord’s where he guided England home alongside Joe Root after coming in at five down with 118 still needed to win. Three months later at Old Trafford, he added 173 with Ben Stokes to level the series against South Africa, scoring his second Test century.

England's second-highest Test run-scorer of all time - after his predecessor as captain Alastair Cook - Root has overseen the most wins (27) but also the most defeats (26) as Test captain. Since its inception, the annual award has recognized key players of the year with a few notable exceptions. Celebrate Wisden's 150th Edition" (PDF). Bloomsbury.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2013 . Retrieved 25 September 2019. Three tons in three consecutive innings earn Shan Masood his place in this team, even if he tailed off somewhat alarmingly against England.

Van Niekerk captained Oval Invincibles to victory in the inaugural Hundred tournament and was the leading run-scorer and most valuable player in the women's competition. Blundell showcased exceptional batting prowess during New Zealand's Test matches in England last summer, accumulating a remarkable total of 383 runs. His standout performance came at Trent Bridge, where he notched up a century that displayed his skill and resilience. Additionally, Blundell's contributions extended beyond that match, as he scored an impressive 96 in the second innings of the preceding Test at Lord's and an unbeaten 88 in the final match held in Leeds. 5. Matthew Potts Mitchell credits Watling and former Test batsman Dean Brownlie with helping him establish the character to cope at the top level. “BJ was so hardworking, and Dean and I had the same batting coach [Neil “Noddy” Holder] from our Perth days, so we looked at the game similarly, in terms of technique and style. I came across Noddy when I was 15, and he’s been a mentor since.” Bumrah was a star performer for India in their visit to England last summer. Contributing with both bat and ball in India’s historic win at Lord’s, he also produced a match-winning spell of bowling at The Oval. The latter gave India a 2-1 lead in the series that is to be concluded in July this year.An injury to Ronchi meant a New Zealand debut in a Twenty20 game against Bangladesh in January 2017, the day after helping Wellington Firebirds win the Super Smash; he was then summoned to New Zealand’s ODI squad for the Chappell-Hadlee series against Australia, only for Latham to keep. Later that year, he won his first Test cap, at the Basin Reserve – Watling was injured – and joined a select group of debut centurions. “It sounds quite strange, but I actually visualised it,” he says. “I was daydreaming about representing New Zealand at the Basin on a nice sunny day…”

Scoring 1,000 runs, including a double-hundred. Recognised as a player of immense presence, a batsman destined to empty bars and “the best off-spinner of his age group in the county”. Root rose above the struggles of England's Test side to produce one of the all-time great performances in a calendar year," said Wisden editor Lawrence Booth.

Ben Gardner

Bobby Abel, Billy Barnes, Billy Gunn, Louis Hall, Robert Henderson, Maurice Read, Arthur Shrewsbury, Frank Sugg, Albert Ward Scored 1,409 runs for Malvern College amassed three scores over 150 including a top score of 186 v Oundle and averaged over 100 in 2013, and also made his debut for Worcestershire, scoring 47 against Bangladesh A on his debut. In eight innings for St Peter's School, York in 2007, he scored three centuries, 654 runs with an average of 218.00. Yadav became only the second player to score 1,000 T20I runs in a calendar year in 2022. He also scored two centuries in the format, against England in Nottingham and New Zealand at Mount Maunganui. The most remarkable part of his year, however, was his strike rate, which sits at an incredible 187.43 from 31 innings.