ACS International Cricket Year Book 2018

3 INTRODUCTION This book lists every cricketer who appeared in a First-Class, List A or Twenty20 match in the 2017 English and Irish seasons or in the 2016/17 season in other countries, thus the book includes every current major cricketer in the world. The first line for each player gives the full name, date and place of birth and player styles where available, and a note of all the teams they have appeared for during the period under review. The lines of statistics are given firstly for the season in each country for each match type, followed by the career record for each match type. The match types are Test, First-Class (FC), One-Day Internationals (Int), List A (Lim), Twenty20 Internationals (I20T), Twenty20 (20T). The season lines are followed by the country abbreviation of where the matches were played, and the career lines followed by the debut season for that match type. If a player’s complete career record for a match type occurred in one country in the period under review then the season line is not repeated. 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 in similar format seasonal and career records for Women’s International matches. SOURCE The statistics in this book were derived from the Cricket Archive database. Scorecards of all matches and more player statistics can be seen on the website at www.cricketarchive.com. Full scorecards of all matches outside England also appear together with details of points tables in the ACS Overseas First-Class Annual 2017 which can be obtained from ACS Sales, price £70. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ross Dundas, Ric Finlay (Australia), Dinar Gupte, Sudhir Vaidya (India), Simon Dyke (Ireland), Francis Payne, Ian Smith (New Zealand), Andrew Samson (South Africa), John Ward (Zimbabwe), John Bryant, Marion Collin, Harriet Monkhouse and Ian Smith.