The Cricketers’ Who’s Who is the essential guide to the 2021 cricket season. The 42nd edition tells you all you need to know about every player from all 18 counties and includes an expanded women’s section to take in the new female cricketers who turned professional last year as well as the England Women squad.

Well over 400 players have answered questions ranging from their toughest opponents to their guilty pleasures, giving readers a unique insight into everyone who will be competing this summer. There are profiles of all the head coaches, a look at how each county is shaping up for the new season, and complete fixture lists for the England men’s and women’s teams.

In the Comment section we talk to the PCA about the challenges facing the counties and their players in the wake of the pandemic, while Scyld Berry looks back on the strange summer of 2020 in English domestic cricket. Elsewhere Daniel Gallan bids farewell to the Kolpak era following Britain’s exit from the European Union.