A SELECTIVE INDEX TO WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK 1985-2020 Compiled by AIDAN HAILE NOTE: Where an Index entry relates to a subject from the “Notes by the Editor” Section of Wisden then it is prefaced by “Ed’s Note:” Subject Wisden Page “A Clear Blue Sky” by Jonny Bairstow & Duncan Hamilton Wisden Book of the Year 2018 136 Abbasi, Kamran ‘Why do they always get injured?’ 2007 62 ‘Cricket and depression: Biting back at the black dog’ 2012 37 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Younis Khan’ 2017 95 Abdul Qadir ‘Never a Cricketer of the Year’ by John Woodcock 2008 108 Abell, Thomas Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year 2013 769 Abraham, Frederick Henri Supplementary Obituary 2015 229 Abrahams, John Cricket People 2015 165 Academic Research – See “Cricket and Academic Research” Academies – See “Cricket Academies” Adams, Andre Retirement 2016 163 Adams, Chris Cricketer of the Year by Paul Weaver 2004 60 Retirement 2009 1537 Adams, Grantley ‘Cricketing Prime Ministers’ by Steven Lynch 2019 104 Adams, Jimmy Retirement 2019 163 Adams, Paul Retirement 2009 1537 Adams, Sidney Clarke Supplementary Obituary 1994 1357 Adlam, Lt Colonel Thomas Edwin Supplementary Obituary 2015 229 Afghanistan ‘Afghanistan and Ireland join the Test fold’ by Tim Wigmore 2018 113 ‘Afghanistan’s inaugural Test’ by Anand Vasu 2019 879 Agents ‘Call my Agent’ by Paul Kelso 2004 44 Agnew, Jonathan Cricketer of the Year by Martin Johnson 1988 52 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Phillip DeFreitas’ 1992 68 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Dominic Cork’ 1996 42 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Phil Simmons’ 1997 49 Cricket People 2007 1629 Aigburth, Liverpool ‘Here comes the sun’ by Paul Edwards 2012 460 Akel, Jules ‘The art and craft of the Lord’s ticket: Making an entrance’ 2019 97 Alcohol - see “Cricket and alcohol” Alderson, Andrew ‘Cricketer of the Year: Kane Williamson’ 2016 105 Aldred, Tanya ‘Cricketer of the Year: Martin Bicknell’ 2001 51 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Andrew Flintoff’ 2004 62 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Steve Harmison’ 2005 60 ‘The County Cricketers’ Year: The four seasons’ 2008 76 ‘The County Cricketers’ Year: Captain, Kolpak, Colt’ 2009 76 ‘When 40-over Cricket was fun: From Church to Chappell’ 2010 65 ‘The new Twenty20 Season: A midsummer night’s cricket’ 2011 65 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Tim Bresnan’ 2012 54 ‘The evolution of the one-day game’ 2013 144 ‘The Greats of the Women’s Game’ 2014 29 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Gary Ballance’ 2015 67 ‘Cricket and Climate Change: How green is your sward?’ 2017 65 Cricket and Sexism “Too ugly to be raped” 2018 31 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Anya Shrubsole’ 2018 95 ‘Cricket and the environment’ in Wisden 2018-2020 – see “Cricket and the environment” Cricket Books in 2018 ‘Morality play’ 2019 127 ‘Cricket and Gender: A fraught battleground’ 2020 91 Ali, Kabir Retirement 2016 163 Ali, Moeen Cricketer of the Year by George Dobell 2015 65 ‘The Booing of Moeen Ali’ by Sarfraz Manzoor 2015 91 Allen, David Rayvern ‘The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Linseed’ 1993 29 ‘A Wisden’s War’ (EW Swanton’s 1939 Wisden) 2001 49 ‘Cricketana’ Wisden 2004-2014 - See “Cricketana” ‘Breaking the Silence’ (national audio archive at Lord’s) 2005 80 ‘John Arlott, 1914-1991: The bard of Basingstoke’ 2014 162 Allen, Dean ‘The arrest of Walter Read: Expense account’ 2016 405 Allen, Sir George ‘Sir George Allen. A Special Portrait’ by J J Warr 1987 65 Allenby, Jim Retirement 2019 164 Alleyne, Hartley Allowed to stay in the UK 2009 1589 Alleyne, Mark Cricketer of the Year by Rob Steen 2001 50 Retirement 2006 190 Allingham, Henry Cricket People 2007 1629 Allott, Paul ‘Cricketer of the Year: Devon Malcolm’ 1995 41 ‘The Speedometer Summer’ 1999 39 ‘Bob Willis, 1949-2019: I must have been bloody mad’ 2020 30 Allsopp, Thomas Charlesworth Supplementary Obituary 2015 229 Altman, John Cricket People in 2003 2004 1604 Amateur Cricketers ‘The slow death of cricket’s class divide’ by Colin Shindler 2012 42 ‘The Arrest of Walter Read: Expense account’ by Dean Allen 2016 405 Ambrose, Curtly Cricketer of the Year by Stephen Thorpe 1992 65 ‘Brothers in Arms’ (Retirement) by Mike Atherton 2001 29 Amiss, Denis ‘How Amiss won his entry card’ (100 100s) by Jack Bannister 1987 77 Master of the crease, and the desk 2006 795 Amla, Hashim Cricketer of the Year by Neil Manthorp 2013 118 Anderson, James Arrival in International Cricket 2003 107 Cricketer of the Year by Andy Wilson 2009 65 Takes 500 Test wickets 2018 25 ‘The new-ball partnership: Marriage or myth’ by Mike Selvey 2018 107 Anderson, John Henry Supplementary Obituary 1994 1357 Ansari, Zafir ‘Calling it a day at 25: Left-field decision’ by Zafir Ansari 2018 43 Retirement 2018 153 Antarctica Cricket in Antarctica 1986 825 Appleby, Matthew ‘Cricket and Gardening: Green fingers turn Indian blue’ 2018 172 Appleyard, Bob “No Coward Soul” by Stephen Chalke and Derek Hodgson Wisden’s Book of the Year 2004 1573 Archer, Jofra Cricketer of the Year by Will Macpherson 2020 67 ‘Memories of the Super Over’ 2020 33 Arlott, John ‘Cricket Books’ Wisden 1985-92 - See “Cricket Books” ‘A lover of cricket and life’ by Mike Brearley 1992 51 ‘The bard of Basingstoke’ by David Rayvern Allen 2014 162 Armstrong-Jones, Michael ‘Cricket and the Brain: KP and the case for neural plasticity’ 2010 1650 “Ashes 2005” by Gideon Haigh Wisden’s Book of the Year 2006 1544 Ashes, The Ed’s Note: The Ashes really should go to Australia 1995 10 ‘Suddenly, everything wet “Boom!”’ by Roland Watson 2006 26 “Ashes 2005” by Gideon Haigh: Wisden’s Book of the Year 2006 1544 ‘The Ashes Masters’ by David Frith 2009 41 ‘How we won the Ashes’ by Andrew Strauss 2010 35 ‘A particularly Australian mongrel’ by Michael Parkinson 2010 40 ‘Glazed, not gimlet-eyed’ by Gideon Haigh 2010 43 ‘Following the Ashes from afar’ by Charlie Connelly 2011 56 ‘1882: The Ashes are born’ 2013 16 ‘1932-33: Bodyline divides two nations’ 2013 17 Ed’s Note: ‘The wrong kind of history’ & ‘Pitch imperfect’ 2014 18 ‘Five Days at the Ashes’ by Patrick Collins 2016 25 Ashton, Malcolm ‘England’s Revival (2) Goodbye Gin and Tonic’ 2005 37 Asian Cricketers in Britain ‘The British-Asian Question’ by Andrew Miller 2016 32 Ed’s Note: “the Asian equation” 2018 21 Aspin, Chris ‘The Lancashire League Celebrates its Centenary’ 1992 58 Aspinall, Walter Supplementary Obituary 2015 230 Astill, James ‘Lalit Modi and the Indian Premier League: Cricket a la Modi’ 2011 85 ‘Cricket in the slums: The siren song of the IPL’ 2014 124 Astle, Nathan Retirement 2007 217 Atherton, Mike Cricketer of the Year by Brian Bearshaw 1991 69 ‘Brothers in Arms – Curtly Ambrose’ 2001 29 ‘Untouched by Fortune’ by Peter Roebuck 2002 35 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Graeme Smith’ 2004 67 ‘The mighty craftsman’ 2007 27 ‘Brian Lara: The entertainer departs’ 2008 56 ‘The England Captaincy (3) Brief encounter’ 2009 32 ‘A Question of Talent: Art and graft’ 2013 149 ‘On Retirement: If not now, when?’ 2016 112 Attewell, Walter Supplementary Obituary 1994 1357 Austin, Charlie ‘The Tragedy that Brought Us Together’ (tsunami) 2005 85 ‘Cricketer of the Year: Mahela Jayawardene’ 2007 86 Austin, Ian Cricketer of the Year by Michael Henderson 1999 41 Australia ‘Why We Beat the Poms’ by Ian Chappell 1994 31 ‘Fifty Sheffield Shield Years’ by David Frith & Philip Bailey 1997 39 ‘Labour Relations: Australian Players’ by Mark Ray 1998 1416 ‘Australian Cricketers of the Year’ 1892-3 to 1996-7 1999 1470 Ed’s Note: Impure Milk (Sheffield Shield renamed Pura Milk Cup)2000 60 ‘Only in Tassie’ by Mark Ray 2008 94 ‘The Search for the new Warne’ by Jarrod Kimber 2012 109 ‘1977-78: World Series Cricket shakes the foundations’ 2013 21 ‘Indigenous Australian Cricket’ by Geoff Lemon 2018 97 Ed’s Note: Elite hypocrisy (re ball tampering affair) 2019 19 ‘It beggars belief’ by Gideon Haigh 2019 36 ‘The view from South Africa’ (re ball tampering) Neil Manthorp 2019 998 ‘The view from Australia (re ball tampering) by Greg Baum 2019 1000 Avery, Marilyn Cricket People in 1996 1997 1392 Azharuddin, Mohammad Cricketer of the Year by R. Mohan 1991 65 Ed’s Note: A Game in Shame (Corruption) 2001 20 ‘Azharuddin’s life ban overturned’ 2013 203 Backer, Ali ‘Out of Africa will come something new’ 1990 56 ‘You just couldn’t say no’ (to Nelson Mandela) 2014 110 Backman, Charles James Supplementary Obituary 2015 230 Bacmeister, Lucas Henry Supplementary Obituary 2015 230 Badar Islam Cricket People in 1997 1998 1419 Bagguley, Robert Supplementary Obituary 1994 1357 Bhattacharya, Rahul ‘“We’ll have a bowl”. And why not?’ 2006 47 Bailey, Herbert Packer Supplementary Obituary 2015 230 Bailey, Jack ‘ICC and South Africa’ 1990 51 ‘A Whole new World’ (ICC) 1994 25 ‘Umpiring’ Wisden 1994-97, 1999 - See “Umpiring” Bailey, Philip ‘Fifty Years of Post-War Cricket’ 1996 25 ‘Fifty Sheffield Shield Years’ 1997 39 ‘County of the Century’ 2000 51 ‘Sixty years of post-war cricket’ 2006 74 ‘Now Hick passes Hobbs’ 2007 81 Bailey, Trevor ‘County Championship - Relic or Relevant’ by Trevor Bailey 1990 75 ‘The man for every crisis’ by Christopher Martin-Jenkins 2011 44 Bainbridge, Phil Cricketer of the Year by David Foot 1986 57 Bairstow, Jonathan Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year 2008 945 Cricketer of the Year by Simon Wilde 2016 97 “A Clear Blue Sky” Wisden Book of the Year 2018 133 ‘Memories of the Super Over’ 2020 37 Bakewell, Enid ‘The Greats of the Women’s Game’ by Tanya Aldred 2014 31 Ed’s Note: The mother of farewells 2019 24 Bal, Sambit ‘Out of the frying pan’ 2007 73 Baldwin, Stephen ‘John Wisden in Leamington’ 2014 1553 Ball, Martyn Retirement 2007 217 Ballance.