137th Edition Wisden Cricketer's Almanack

Wisden 2000 will be the most important edition of the Almanack since its 1963 Centenary. Billed as the Millennium Wisden, the centrepiece will be a special section devoted to cricket in the 20th century. In addition, as a once-only offer, Wisden will be packaged with a FREE paperback book celebrating its publication in every year of the twentieth century. This will feature an extract from each and every edition of Wisden from 1900 to 1999, demonstrating its variety of content and impressive publication history.

The key Wisden 2000 highlight will be the selection and appreciation of Five Cricketers of the Century. Chosen by a panel of 100 cricketing experts, the names of the Five will not be announced until publication.

Other key features include:

1. Images of the Century: The best cricket picture from each decade, selected by Patrick Eagar, and displayed in a 16-page plate section (in addition to the normal colour plates).

2. Summers of the Century: Frank Keating and (more scientifically) weatherman Philip Eden pick the best summer of the 20th century.

3. Games of the Century: The 100 best cricket matches listed, justified and indexed.

4. Books of the Century: How cricket writing has changed since 1900.

5. A Century of Notes: The Editors' Notes, Wisden's famous editorial, began in 1901. Successive editors have thundered for and against (mostly against) every change in the game since then. We review what the Almanack got right and wrong.

This will be in addition to Wisden's normal coverage of 1999. This will include reports and pictures of the World Cup, the Five Cricketers of the Year, and articles on current topics, among them contrasting pieces from Martin Johnson -who says the good times have all gone - and Patrick Collins, who finds a day's cricket at Taunton as idyllic as it ever was. And there will, of course, be our traditional round up of the year's barmy on-field happenings.