Wisden Anthology 1978-2006 · Cricket’s Age of Revolution by Moss, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Preface Section One: The Revolution

The World Before Packer The Packer Experiment The World After Packer Mammon The Television Takeover It’s Just Not Cricket – A Crisis in Behaviour Bribery and Corruption (Alleged) Politics Gear Change – Helmets, Bats and Balls

Section Two: The Test-Playing Countries

England Expects (Too Much, Mostly) Australia and the Rules of Waugh West Indies’ Fall from Grace India – The Tiger Awakes South Africa – Return of the Exile New Zealand – Hadlee’s Heroics Pakistan and the Art of the Unpredictable Sri Lanka’s Instant Success Zimbabwe’s Nightmare Bangladesh – Battered but Hopeful

Section Three: The Players

The Great and the Good Batsmen Fast Men Spinners All-Rounders Keepers Captains Characters

Section Four: The World Cup

The Cup Runneth Over All Hail King Viv The Shock of Shocks Border Rising Feast for Imran’s Cornered Tigers Sensational Sri Lanka England’s Debacle Aussies and Kenyans

Section Five: The Counties

Crisis, What Crisis? Derbyshire Durham Essex Glamorgan Gloucestershire Hampshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Middlesex Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Somerset Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Worcestershire Yorkshire

Section Six: The Bigger Picture

Cricket Round the World Beyond the First-Class Game Women’s Cricket Umpires Pundits The Great Unsung Extras

Section Seven: Farewells

Close of Play

Chronology Wisden Cricketers of the Year 1978–2006 Statistical Highlights 1977–2005 Imprint

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