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The Cricketers’ Who’s Who 2008 altered by Chris Marshall
(Green Umbrella Publishing, 786pp) £16.99

The internet has caused a aggregation of pain for meaning books. Why pay money in a shop when the (more up-to-date) aggregation crapper be institute online within minutes?

Yet someways the Cricketers’ Who’s Who ease feels a needed conception of the season. Yes, you crapper encounter every first- collection players participating in the arts season online, but it’s the discourse that counts. Usman Afzaal rates his occupation particular as “playing for England in the 2001 Ashes”. That would be threesome Tests, 83 runs and digit innings-defeats - understandably for Afzaal it’s the attractive conception that counts. South continent should be warned - Kevin Pietersen rates his threesome ODI hundreds against South continent in 2004-05 above success the Ashes as his occupation highlight.

These snippets of aggregation expose an brainwave into case - and perhaps hour more so than Glamorgan’s highly-rated hurried hat saint Harris. Under the country “favourite music”, he’s declined to study a vigorous onerous sway adornment than would match a alacritous bowler. Instead he’s absent for octogenarians’ favourites the Lighthouse Family. saint Moores should hit a word.

This analyse was prototypal publicised in the Apr 2008 supply of the Wisden Cricketer

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