Playfair Cricket Annual 2023

The world’s bestselling cricket annual.
The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season.

The 76th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2023, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months.

The Ashes series is the main attraction this coming season, and here you’ll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action.

County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer’s events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2023.

There are also sections on women’s cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, including The Hundred.

For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

Ian Marshall took over as Editor of the Playfair Cricket Annual in 2009, having previously worked on 15 editions of the annual in his role as a book publisher. During his 30-year publishing career, he has worked with some of cricket’s greatest players, including Mike Atherton, Sir Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Stuart Broad, David Gower, Justin Langer, Dennis Lillee and Sir Garry Sobers. He still occasionally plays cricket, and has toured Africa, India and Sri Lanka.