As ever, "Wisden's Cricketers Almanack" is one of the highlights of the cricketing year and 2007's edition carries on "Wisden's" fine tradition of cricket scholarship, statistics and documenting the odd cricket-related events.

"Wisden" 2007 saw the return of the Ashes to Australia in emphatic terms, the passing of Freddie Trueman, Walter Hadlee, Clyde Walcott and Wasim Raja, the news that Brian Lara had been made a Test selector but no one had gotten around to mentioning it to him, plus more cricket stats you could shake a spreadsheet at.

Like any "Wisden", the 2007 edition is a must-read. ( )