I’d like to thank Scyld Berry for his support for and encouragement of the initial idea, and Christopher Lane and Charlotte Atyeo for all their faith, help and patience in its execution. Thanks to Matthew Engel who established the section in the first place, to Lawrence Booth, Graeme Wright, Hugh Chevallier, Tony Munro, Timothy Abraham and James Coyne – past and current editors of Cricket Round the World – and also to Mahendra Mapagunaratne, for his consistent help with the Cricket Round the World section. Finally, all my love and thanks to Jude for being the finest and most supportive cricket widow the global game has ever seen.