Cricket's Historians

294 Historians Dig Deeper to the latest edition, but the Deputy Editors are Harriet Monkhouse, Hugh Chevallier, who joined Wisden in 1999, and Steven Lynch. Harriet Monkhouse, born in 1962 and coming from Manchester, is an Oxford graduate, who joined the Almanack in 1990 and as the editor of the day noted ‘she has altered the work pattern of more than a decade. For that I am especially grateful’. Whether the word decade should be changed to century is an open question. Harriet was elected to the Committee of the ACS in 1996 and has also been a unobtrusively sound adviser to the Association. Steven Lynch has been previously noted. Philip Bailey is now described as the ‘Chief Statistician’. To accommodate other material the section devoted to U.K. cricket has been reduced. All the domestic One Day matches now only appear as potted scores and Minor County and Second Eleven competition results, averages and reports have been severely curtailed. The splendid Births & Deaths section of Ashley- Cooper has become four pages and 172 names. However all Test players are contained in a separate section as are most current first-class players, which means that a large number appear in both lists. A & C Black are presently the publishers. Overseas the annual for New Zealand maintains its high standard, South Africa’s now fails to give the detailed scores of all first-class matches and in 2008 there were no national annuals for West Indies, Australia or India (save for the Board’s publication which is almost impossible to find). This latter work was entitled Cricontrol Statistical Annual edited by Sudhir Vaidya until 1996-97. The title was then changed to BCCI Statistical Annual edited by Mohandas Memon until 2001-02. Vaidya then resumed the editorship. The work is very comprehensive and includes junior cricket. A number of Indian Ranji Trophy sides have had publications issued, the most impressive being The Spirit of Chepauk by Subbiah Muthiah – this was the 150 year history of Madras C.C. The increasing reliance by statisticians on the internet sites for both first- class and even more so for ‘List A’ One Day and Twenty-Twenty matches. It should be noted that the ACS, mainly through Philip Bailey, introduced the system of classifying Limited Overs Matches and those which are