Eleven of the best Wisden CricInfo staff - December 27, 2002
It was the year of Australian omnipotence, of Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hayden, of Rahul Dravid and Ricky Ponting, of freak injuries and the tragic death of Ben Hollioake, of fearless run-chases and fearful crowd misbehaviour.
It was also the year in which politics and sport flirted uncomfortably, in which Shane Warne lost heaps of weight and then dislocated his shoulder, in which one Waugh lost the one-day captaincy and the other his Test place, in which Indian cricket found a naked, raw edge, and one which England ended on the brink of only the second whitewash in Ashes history.
Here we pick out some of the defining moments of 2002.
