Free 2009 Cricketers Who’s Who when you subscribe to Spin this month!

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The Cricketers Who’s Who is celebrating its 30th year of publication and features full profiles of every player likely to play first-class cricket in England in 2009.

As well as stats and career details, the 750-page tome also features player’s off-field opinions on the game as well as things like their favourite bands (generally this is Snow Patrol, though one player, oddly, chooses 80s MORists Mike and the Mechanics.)

So Chris Silverwood is a karate black belt; Liam Plunkett’s favourite band is (still) “r’n'b”; Rob Key called his daughter Aaliyah and, as a youth, played tennis for Kent; Stuart Broad played hockey for the county as a teenager and always bowls three warm-up balls before he begins a spell…

We could go on.

Suffice to say it’s full of hard fact and soft trivia and is pretty much indispensable – particularly if you’re getting it for free.

This year, it also features an intro by England skipper Andrew Strauss (4 A-levels, BA Hons (Economics), favourite band not listed but known to be friends with Keane.)

Subscribe to the next 10 issues of Spin for £30 and you get the magazine before it’s in the shops, make a massive saving on our £3.75 cover price AND get a free Who’s Who worth £18.99.

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