Test Cricket Lists: The Ultimate Guide to International Test Cricket

Your truly devoted cricket‐lover possesses a complete set of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack (known as the bible),1864 to date, and has, perforce, to keep the 134 volumes shelved in a study. Your less affluent follower buys the Playfair Cricket Annual (known as the prayer book), 1948 to date, and keeps the current edition in his blazer pocket throughout the cricket season. Both are founts of knowledge about test match cricket. This publication falls between the two. Within the 468 pages of its limp covers it contrives, in one volume, to fulfil its sub‐title of being “The Ultimate Guide to International Test...