Every year cricket gets bigger and more complex. But every year the “Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack” is there to guide you through the highlights, lowlights and strangeness of the years’ cricket.

Casting our minds back to the 2001 edition, we see the death of the supposedly immortal Sir Donald Bradman, the issue of match fixing raising its ugly head yet again, Zimbabwe and the West Indies touring England, that the great Darren Lehmann was named one of the five “Wisden” Cricketer’s of the Year, the countless one day matches played around the world, updates on cricket outposts like Brunei and Panama, obituaries of the great (Colin Cowdrey, Brian Statham) and the lesser lights, such as Muthiah Chidambaran, who was not only a cricket administrator of note but also introduced the motor scooter to the subcontinent. ( )