FREE THE WISDEN BOOK OF TEST CRICKET 2000-2009: V. 4 PDF Steven Lynch | 512 pages | 10 Feb 2010 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781408123355 | English | London, United Kingdom [PDF] The Wisden Book of Test Cricket v. 4 Full Collection - video dailymotion South Africa in Sri Lanka: 1st Test, England v West Indies: 1st Test, South Africa in England: 1st Test, New Zealand in Sri Lanka: 1st Test, Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe: 2nd Test, England v West Indies: 3rd Test, Bangladesh in The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 Indies: 2nd Test, South Africa in England: 2nd Test, England v South Africa: 4th Test, South Africa The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 Sri Lanka: 2nd Test, Bangladesh in British Isles 1st Test. Pakistan in Bangladesh 2nd Test. Pakistan in Bangladesh 1st Test. Bangladesh in Sri Lanka: 3rd Test, South Africa in Bangladesh: 1st Test, Pakistan in Sri Lanka 1st Test. 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The Wisden Book of Test Cricket - by Steven Lynch for sale online | eBay In honour of Shivnarine Chanderpaul's 44th birthday, we've revisited our top Test players from Key numbers from The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 1, : 70 matches, wickets at With a brand new ball in his hand, the red-haired right-armer could make the ball move through the air, talk off the pitch and take the outside edge of a baffled batsman. Line and length was his mantra with the ball, while with the bat, Pollock was allowed to express himself and could tee off as if he was standing at the first at Augusta. At 27, he was handed the captaincy after the Hansie Cronje scandal, and the leadership role agreed with him, taking wickets in 26 Tests in The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4. Lara was 30 by the time the The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 century rolled around, and his legend had already been well and truly built. But he had another six years of flaying attacks the world over, demonstrating his arguably unmatched batting genius against pace and spin alike and continuing his modus operandi of making massive hundreds — six scores over came from onwards, including his world record no against England in Never at ease with captaincy or board politics, the West Indian was an enigmatic crowd-pleaser whose The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 value will forever be remembered in runs, runs and runs. Best Performance: Take your pick. Lara made 21 hundreds post at a rate of one every 3. Like so many batsman in the top half of this countdown, Younis marked his debut with an impressive century against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi at the turn of the millennium. And Younis has delivered. In nine Tests against his neighbours, the endearing right-hander averages in excess of 88, owner of five centuries including a magnificent and rapid 84no in Bangalore in At 37, Younis shows no signs of slowing down with six of his 29 Test hundreds coming in his last 10 matches. Best Performance: The began in trying circumstances atbut a big partnership with Inzamam steadied the ship and helped Pakistan draw an action- packed series With a swinging ball, Anderson is simply lethal; capable of switching between exaggerated inswing and outswing, he can cut batting orders to ribbons, and has done exactly that throughout an impressively enduring international career. Throw in three Ashes triumphs — the other yardstick by which the English measure success — and the year-old has already secured his place as a legend of the game. Best Performance: His wicket haul against Australia at Trent Bridge in which included an unplayable outswinger that knocked over Michael Clarke is perhaps just surpassed by his stunning match figures of against Pakistan at the same venue in Having collected first up, he returned on day five with a vengeance, proving too much for Pakistan as he claimed six wickets for just 17 runs. Virender Sehwag did it in his first Test. Batting at No. Key numbers from Jan 1, - June 1, : matches, 8, runs at One of only three men to claim more than Test wickets, Kumble exited the game as one of the most respected and renowned spin bowlers in Test history. As a competitor, there were few fiercer than the tall, erudite leggie from Bangalore. After becoming only the second player to take all 10 wickets in an innings in against Pakistan, Kumble carried his spinning magic into the new century; he ripped apart England inbamboozled his rival neighbours in Multan in and bowled his country to a series win in the Caribbean in Armed with a well-disguised googly and deceptive change of pace, Kumble was most prolific against the mighty Australians, capturing 74 wickets, seven five-fors and a brace of wicket match hauls in 14 Tests. Best Performance: The Kingston special in was something else. Kumble burned through the tail, picking up the last five wickets to record a memorable win. The left-hander from Kingaroy in Queensland had tried and failed to crack Test cricket in the s, but his second coming truly began with runs in three Tests in India and a sustained period of brutal domination followed. With an imposing physique and a phenomenal eye, Hayden flipped the script on the traditional The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 v batsman battle, taking up the role of aggressor, often via two or three quick strides down the pitch and a blasted drive over the infield. Best Performance: There might have been more important knocks, but there were none more emphatic than his on his home patch of the Gabba against England in He made in the second innings, Australia went up and the series was theirs soon after. What the two shared however was a desire for making runs, and between them they piled on mountains. As his career wore on and the records piled up, Chanderpaul seemed to improve with age, regularly operating as a one-man band and seemingly scoring hundreds for fun as West Indies cricket continued to implode around him. Best Performance: Chanderpaul scored five hundreds against Australia including one remarkable out-of- the-box effort — the fifth-fastest Test ton of all time, from just 69 balls as West Indies chased down a world record in Antigua, While The Wall in Westeros might be unassailable, there was one that was mighty difficult to penetrate for a dozen years this century, protecting three wooden stumps, two bails and a prize wicket. Supremely fit of mind and body, the robotic right-hander made a career out of occupying the crease and grinding down opponents, as if competing in a staring contest with no eyelids. Owning a unique technique that combines his multi-sports background, de Villiers has blazed all and sundry since an inauspicious debut in December From there, it was no looking back. Centuries in England and Australia delivered thrilling series wins, a high score of no against Pakistan in was posted, and the world No. In 20 Tests, de Villiers has notched five centuries and nine fifties at McGrath entered the new millennium with 10 wickets against India and finished with the remarkable figures of against the West Indies in Brisbane, along with his th scalp and a Test hat-trick at the WACA. His dominance over England continued into the 21st century, taking 91 wickets in 17 matches across four series, while his 32 Pakistan victims — including a career-best in Perth in — came at only With partner in crime Shane Warne, McGrath and the King of Spin formed the greatest bowling duo in Test history, taking 1, wickets together in the five-day format. His series predictions always clean sweeps to Australia and his batting targets always the opposition captain and best batsman became stuff of legend. In the Caribbean inStuart MacGill had been preferred ahead of him in a Test for the first time, and while he found form again on his home tracks the following summer, finger and shoulder problems had largely eliminated his chief variation of the s — the flipper. How wrong we were. A month suspension in seemed only to sharpen his focus, and the spinner who returned in Sri Lanka 26 wickets in three Tests was arguably the best version yet. The flipper had long been replaced by the slider, while the leg-break remained and the mental hold he had over batsmen was stronger than ever. A master of bluff and bravado, Warne had the greatest on-field presence of anyone in his era, and a peerless skill-set to match. Best Performance: Warne took a world record 96 wickets inin the middle of which he bewitched The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 2000-2009: v. 4 to the tune of 40 wickets in five Ashes Tests.