ACS International Cricket Year Book 2009

INTRODUCTION This book lists every cricketer who appeared in a First-Class, List A or Twenty20 match in the 2008 English season or in the 2007/08 season in other countries, thus the book includes every current major cricketer in the world. The following tours are listed as season 2008 outside England - Australia to West Indies, India to Sri Lanka. These tours took place at the same time as the English season and are listed as an 'off season'. Figures are combined with 2007/08 where appropriate. The ICC Inter-Continental Cup tournament for 2007 to 2008 was played over two years and all the 2008 matches are included. In all countries players are listed alphabetically with all the teams that they played for in the period under review in brackets after their name, together with details of any tours abroad. Performances in events that were spread over more than one country are split into the appropriate countries. The lines of statistics after the players biographical details are as follows: Test Appearances in Test Cricket in that country in 2007/08 and 2008 FC Appearances in First-Class Cricket in that country in 2007/08 and 2008 (including Tests) Int Appearances in One-Day Internationals in that country in 2007/08 and 2008 Lim Appearances in List A Limited-overs matches in that country in 2007/08 and 2008 (including ODIs) I20T Appearances in Twenty20 Internationals in that country in 2007/08 and 2008 20T Appearances in Twenty20 matches in that country 2007/08 and 2008 (including I20T matches) These are followed by similar lines showing the full career record in the appropriate type of cricket, with the season of debut. If a player made his debut and only appeared in a particular match type in his home country in 2007/08 or 2008, then no career line is printed. In limited overs and Twenty20 matches the 5i column gives instances of exactly 4 wickets in an innings, and the 10m column gives instances of 5 or more wickets in an innings. There is also a section giving career records for those players who took part in Women’s Test matches (WT), Women’s One-Day International matches (WInt) and Women’s Twenty20 International matches (W20T) during 2007/08 and 2008. LIST OF MATCHES INCLUDED First-class matches used to compile the figures for this book are those noted in the ACS first-class match lists, published in five volumes and amended and updated periodically. Limited Overs matches used to compile the figures for this book are those included in List A. The ICC have adopted List A into their Classification of Official Cricket from 2006 but the ACS continues to assist on List A status - for details see http://acscricket.com/ListA/Description.html. The Australia v ICC World XI matches are included as Test and ODIs following the ICC ruling. SOURCE The statistics in this book were derived from the CricketArchive database. Scorecards of all matches and more player statistics can be seen on the website at www.cricketarchive.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Charlie Wat (Australia), Sohel Awrangzeb (Bangladesh), I.U.Khan, Rajesh Kumar, Sudhir Vaidya (India), Francis Payne, Ian Smith (New Zealand), Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Saqib Irfan (Pakistan), Andrew Samson (South Africa), Chaminda de Silva, Sa'adi Thawfeeq (Sri Lanka), Robin Abrahams, Gerry Byrne, Marion Collin, Brian Croudy, the late Bill Frindall, Peter Griffiths, Andrew Hignell, Harriet Monkhouse, Michael Owen-Smith, David Potter and Zahra Ridge for the cover design. Cover photograph of Graeme Smith copyright Gallo Images. 2