The Cricketers' Who's Who 2023

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More than 400 (nearly but not quite all) players who make up the 18-county system, as well as all the contracted women’s players, have answered questions ranging from the thorny (“Which bowler would you least like to face?

Or we’d open it just to see who’s had the dodgiest haircut or to read out some of the amusing comments. In an early preface he thanked a “Mr Bill Smith FRPS” for personally taking nearly all the photographs. An established T20 genius in the IPL with the Mumbai Indians, Suryakumar Yadav was a difficult player to rank. Keep them up to date with the latest opinions, the best sports-writing and the most comprehensive reports on their favourite game. The pages of The Cricketers’ Who’s Who 2022 reveal the interesting, insightful, sometimes hilarious and often off-the-wall world of English cricket.Accurate and with a hard-to-pick googly, Khan has flourished across numerous short-form leagues and has a stellar record for Afghanistan in over 150 white-ball matches. The annual tome of player profiles, stats and anecdotes pored over by fans and players alike is now on its 43rd edition. The book provides a “unique insight” into the minds of those who will grace the grounds up and down the country for the next six months, from St Lawrence to Sedbergh, Edgbaston to Aigburth. In Tests, he possesses the control and swing to control the scoring and keep batters under pressure. He averages over 60 in Test cricket, and while a relatively limited white-ball player, he possesses a great record in ODIs.

There are profiles of all the head coaches, a look at how each county is shaping up for the new season, and fixture lists for the England men’s and women’s teams.There’s a lot of time to talk during matches, and we’d often play ‘guess the cricketer’: “This guy’s 40 years old, he averages 24 with the ball, his highest score is 74 not out and his lookalike is Frank Lampard.

Inevitably compared to the Fab Four, Azam has surpassed several of that quartet over the last couple of years. The 43rd edition of The Cricketers’ Who’s Who tells you all you need to know about every player from all 18 counties, as well as the contracted women’s players.As usual, Wisden includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and obituaries. Sproat was a man of many passions; he organised the translation of Alexander Pushkin’s complete works into English and wrote an in-depth study of PG Wodehouse.

This year’s foreword comes courtesy of Middlesex legend Tim Murtagh, the epitome of a county cricketer. It reflects on the extraordinary life of Shane Warne, who died at the age of 52, with a superb assessment by Gideon Haigh, first-person recollections from several of his Test victims, and a statistical analysis by Andy Zaltzman. Initially starring for Pakistan in white-ball formats, Babar Azam has evolved into one of the country’s greatest ever batters.

The move was disastrous for Sproat, pushing him into the political wilderness for the next nine years, but did at least mean he could concentrate on CWW. The 160th edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the world's finest sports writing.