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Playfair is the world's bestselling cricket annual - the essential pocket guide to the season. A top-ten best seller every year, this 61st edition of the annual reviews England's 2007 series against the West Indies and India, as well as their winter tours to Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Edited by Bill Frindall - the world's leading cricket statistician, the book is packed with all the essential information required to follow events on the cricket field, with unrivalled up-to-the-minute statistical detail on all first-class players registered in the UK, and fixture lists for the coming season. Plus, you'll find full Test match, first-class and limited-overs international records inside as well.
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SHOW TIME - Exclusive interview with Dimitri Mascarenhas on smashing six-hitting records and IPL megabucks ~ Full 2008 County Preview ~ Flintoff's Return - The Inside Story ~ Shane Warne - What did he ever do for us? ~ Rock Bottom - we relive England's dismal summer of '99 ~ Dry Run - Yorkshire & Lancashire hit Abu Dhabi
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The greatest show on earth? Why the Indian leagues will change cricket forever ~ What next for England? Graham Thorpe and Dermot Reeve point the way ~ Allan Donald, the new Warwickshire bowling coach on Steve Harmison's troubles ~ On Tour With India - Maverick ESPN roving reporter Gautam Bhimani with an insider's view of India's momentous tour of Australia
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Alastair Cook 'We have to win in New Zealand' ~ Hammered! The story behind England's most notorious tour ~ Everything you know is wrong... Why India is the new home of fast bowling ~ Graham Taylor on why cricket must not turn into football ~ Kabir Ali - injured or not injured? ~ Dermot Reeve on why cricket is nothing without sportsmanship.
FAME ACADEMY - Access all areas with England's 2009 Ashes hopefuls ~ England vs New Zealand full preview ~ Cricket's Top 40 Blunders revealed ~ Cricket comes back to Galle ~ Geoff Lawson - What's it like having the toughest job in world cricket?
2007 SOUVENIR SPECIAL ~ Paul Collingwood leads our all-star review of 2007 ~ John Dyson the new West Indies coach speaks exclusively to SPIN ~ 50 reasons to remember 2007 ~ Mark Ramprakash - exactly how close did he come to an England recall? ~ Chris Tremlett on the highs and lows of 2007 ~ Paul Nixon, Englands (short-lived)ODI inspiration on his, frankly, massive 2007.
Monty - face to face with England's cult hero ~ Duncan Fletcher on success, failure and that book ~ England v Sri Lanka full preview ~ Galle - The comeback - how the tsunami-wrecked stadium faces a race against time to be ready again for Test cricket in December ~ Duncan Fletcher - England's ex-coach grants an extraordinary reveal-all interview
The Best World Cup Ever? Full T20 review ~ Lasith Malinga Exclusive - World Cricket's newest superstar opens up to SPIN ~ Who should be Monty's Test No2? ~ Tour with England - our guide to cricket travel
Twenty20 World Championships - Full Hawkeye Fired Preview ~ Field of Dreams - How the top teams steal 30 runs a game ~ England as you've never seen them before - We meet the T20 Special Force: Maddy, Kirtley and Wright
'I'm a man obsessed and there's no going back' Monty's mentor speaks ~ Ravi Bopara - Is he England's one-day saviour? ~ Stamford Bridge? Selhurst Park? Croatia?! Cricket's weirdest outspots ~ Bill Athey - Ashes-winning stalwart on being a football prodigy and life with beefy ~ Behind the scenes at a one-day international - SPIN meets the men (and women) who make the magic happen at Edgbaston
Dilip Doshi - Ex-Indian twirler on a life of luxury goods - and seeing the stones 213 times ~ Dwayne Bravo - We meet West Indies' all-action all-rounder to reflect on the tour of England ~ Ryan Sidebottom - An exclusive interview with England's new talisman ~ India player by player ~ The Indian Idol - Sukhvir Singh won cricket's answer to Pop Idol on Indian TV - SPIN meets him as he takes up his prize... a summer in Leicester...
Simon Jones - England's Ashes hero talks exclusively to Spin ~ Paul Collingwood's exclusive view on England vs Windies ~ Chris Adams (Mooro's once - and future? - right-hand man) tells us about life as county cricket's most successful captain ~ Stars of Twenty20 name their T20 dream team ~ John Buchanan Spills The Beans ~ Backspin: Somerset in the 70s ~ Paul Smith - The ex-Warwicks party boy tells all to Spin...
Massive World Cup Review ~ Behind the scenes with Peter Moores ~ Reeve and Hollioake's ODI blueprint ~ Ian Bell and Graham Thorpe on the World Cup ~ Didn't you used to be: Jack Russell ~ Spin Meets Chris Schofield ~ Jimmy Adams' West Indies preview ~ Slinger Malinga's life in hair ~ Backspin: Viv Richards in the Lancashire League
FREE Brian Lara PC Game ~ Steven Harmison ~ Tribute to Bob Woolmer ~ SPIN meets Murali ~ World Cup Hawkeye ~ On the road with Ireland and Holland ~ Dermot Reeve ~ Read, Foster, Davis, Batty: England's keeping contenders ~ Didn't you used to be... David Lawrence
World Cup Preview Special ~ Full Hawkeye powered team-by-team guide ~ Tom Moody in Sri Lanka ~ Shane Bond ~ Brian Lara ~ Michael Vaughan ~ Ian Bell ~ Didn't you used to be... Joel Garner
Future Special: Our look at Cricket in 2020 ~ Thorpey on England's ODI fiasco ~ Will ODIs kill pace bowling? ~ Mike Hussey exclusive ~ What cricketers do in Winter ~ Henry Olonga ~ Mal Loye ~ Didn't you used to be... Ed Giddins
Ashes post-mortem ~ Tony Greig ~ Ian Bell ~ Jon Lewis: England's ODI saviour ~ The Big Match: Australia vs England in Perth ~ Challenge Kemp vs Merlyn ~ Do the Barmy Army want their money back? ~ Didn't you used to be... Richard Ellison
Massive 2006 review ~ Michael Clarke ~ Gary Pratt ~ Tony Greig ~ Graham Thorpe ~ Ian Bell ~ Shaun Tait ~ Didn't you used to be... Eddie Hemmings
Ashes Preview ~ Monty Panesar ~ Glenn McGrath ~ Ian Bell ~ Shane Warne ~ Graham Thorpe ~ Inside Both Teams' Training Camps ~ Didn't you used to be... Chris Old
Ashes Countdown ~ Brett Lee ~ Shane Warne ~ Andrew Strauss on his summer as captain ~ SPIN meets Stuart Broad ~ Ramps on Strictly Come Dancing ~ The Big Match: Bacup vs Colne in the Lancashire League ~ Adam Hollioake on ODIs ~ Didn't you used to be... Monte Lynch
England's ODI woes: special investigation ~ SPIN meets Adil Rashid ~ Oval ball-tampering fiasco: the inside story ~ Imran Khan ~ David Graveney ~ Liam Plunkett ~ The Big Match: Guyana vs Trinidad in the Stanford Twenty20
Tony Greig ~ Imran Khan ~ Geraint Jones ~ How cricket became a batter's game ~ England's injury crisis ~ Shahid Afridi exclusive ~ Twenty20 cup ~ Somerset Vs Gloucestershire
Alastair Cook Exclusive ~ Kevin Pietersen ~ Bob Woolmer exclusive ~ Pakistan player-by-player guide ~ England vs Belfast day trip ~ Ian Blackwell's Diary ~ Cricket in China
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