This year's almanack cover contains two images – its famous woodcut of top-hatted toffs at the crease and Ben Stokes thumping a ball to the boundary, tattoos cascading from his Adidas-branded shirt sleeve. |
For example, searching for Nova-Scotia temperance almanack will produce different results than Nova Scotia almanack. |
The more interesting parts of the almanack, however, can be found beyond the player profiles. |
Assuredly not in that of substituting the utile for the dulce, in any eyes but those of almanack makers. |
That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto. |
They reached a low point in 1999 with a series loss to New Zealand leaving them bottom of the unofficial Wisden Cricketers' Almanack rankings. |