ACS Overseas First-Class Annual 2009

Acknowledgments I should like to put on record my gratitude to the many people that have contributed to this Annual. Pride of place must go to Peter Griffiths and Philip Bailey. They offered expertise, wise counsel, and an immense amount of hard work, to say nothing of allowing free use of the wonderful resource represented by CricketArchive (www.cricketarchive.com ). Without them, this Annual would not exist. I should also like to thank Robin Abrahams, Rodney Ashby, Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Dinar Gupte, Keith Holder, Francis Payne, Andrew Samson, Sohel Awrangzeb, Sudhir Vaidya and Charlie Wat, for supplying the indispensable raw material of scores and much valuable supplementary material; the ACS Committee, for backing the project; the Association’s President, Mike Smith, for contributing a foreword that not only sets the scene but also offers an insight into the way a proper cricketer sees the statistical side of the game; Zahra Ridge, for providing the striking cover design; and not least my long-suffering wife Deborah, for not divorcing me. John Bryant Editor 9