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They said Australia would suffer the losses of key players. They were wrong, and how

For West Indies, 2007 was a year of tumult, crammed with historical events and twists, ugly politics and blame games. But it ended with a grand victory in South Africa

From hackle-raising autobiographies to exhaustive histories - 2007 offered a mixed bag of cricket books. Cricinfo asked its in-house editors, associates and a selection of the great and good for their picks of the year

Life beyond the Test world: our review of the Associate nations in 2007

Cricinfo staffers picked their XIs of the year in the three formats. Surprise, surprise, about a third of the slots on offer go to Australians

Too many ODIs, too many of them tepid; the continuing dominance of Australia; the birth of Twenty20; and the decline of spin

Wretched limited-overs tournaments, upset wins, Gilly's hundred, Sangakkara's run, and more

Sri Lanka did done decently well in 2007 - save for a couple of hiccups

England began and ended the year with humiliating losses, and it didn't get much better in the middle either

As ever, in 2007 too, you never could tell which Bangladesh team would show up on any given day

Plenty happened in Pakistan cricket in 2007, little of it good

Zimbabwe cricket in 2007 featured some consolation wins and a new coach. At the board, though, the usual politicking reigned.

The quotes of the year

Australia demolish everything in sight, a master returns, and an old-timer finds another landmark to reach. In part two of our staffers' picks of the best and worst of 2007

Sriram Veera catches up with the Saurashtra team celebrating their passage to the Ranji semi-finals

Most of New Zealand's 2007 action was of the ODI variety

The heroes and zeroes, the purple patches and the flops, feats and falls, the weird and the wonderful. Osman Samiuddin hands out the gongs for the year in cricket

A few heavyweights hang up their boots, a landmark tournament gets underway in India, and more

Cricket's shortest format is a global hit, a parallel league gathers pace in India, and more

Have time, will bat. Shitanshu Kotak is not the one to get carried away by attractive strokeplay and forget the team cause