Allen Richardson of St. David's, who scored his 1,000th Eastern Counties run last year, is featured on the cover of the 50-page issue while articles inside highlight the outstanding seasons of cricketers of the year Wendell Smith and Arnold Manders, and Western Stars' first championship triumph.

Smith passed Lloyd James to become the highest scoring run-getter in the history of Cup Match, though he failed by just seven runs to become the first man to score 1,000 runs in Cup Match. Manders talks about his season which brought special joy -- a first championship for his club Western Stars.

The centre-page layout is a pictorial of tour matches involving the Bermuda national team training at Lord's last year while in England, during their training trip to Barbados earlier this year and in action at home against English county team Derbyshire.

Bowling great Clarence (Tuppence) Parfitt, now retired and residing in Scotland, looks back on his 30-year career while Noel Gibbons reflects on his first year as a professional at Halesowen in the Birmingham Conference League.

BCBC president Ed Bailey looks ahead to next year's ICC Trophy in Kenya when a top-three finish would guarantee Bermuda a place in the 1995 World Cup against the Test-playing countries.

For the first time the annual is being published by Crown Communications, a division of the Royal Gazette Ltd., and at $3.50 is an excellent value. Part proceeds will be donated to the Bermuda Under-19 squad who travel to Denmark next month for the International Youth Tournament.

The magazine will be sold at locations throughout the Island, including The Marketplace at Heron Bay, Shelly Bay, and Somerset, the Phoenix Stores, People's Pharmacy, The Stationery Store and BCBC office.