This 2003 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack provides a comprehensive analysis of cricketing statistics from both the national and county game. Simon Barnes pinpoints Steve Waugh's impact on the game, and there are essays on Tendulkar at 30, global overload and the summer of 1953, when England, incredibly, won the Ashes. Always reliable on players' births and deaths, it now turns to the state of their marriages. Can a top player also be a new man?