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England’s Harry Brook and Mark Wood are honoured while Bazball is celebrated in the latest edition of the cricketing bible.

Brook and Wood are named as two of the five cricketers of the year along with Australians Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Starc and Ashleigh Gardner from their all-conquering women’s team in the 161st Wisden Almanack, published on Tuesday.

And Mail Sport’s own Lawrence Booth lauds England’s audacious approach to Test cricket under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum in his brilliant editor’s notes that are such an important annual statement on the health of the world game.

It is the unveiling of the five cricketers of the year, an accolade based on achievements in the English summer that can only be won once, which remains an integral part of the anticipation of a summer ahead that the publication of Wisden always brings.

Brook, who missed the tour of India to be with his seriously-ill grandmother, who has since died through cancer, is honoured after becoming England’s best and most important young batsman and playing crucial hands in the Ashes wins at Headingley and the Oval.