High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Young Wisden Cricketer of the Year is a cricketer selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers` Almanack. The decision is based upon "his or her performances in school`s cricket, as reported in Wisden".Wisden has included details of schools cricket as far back as its second edition in 1865, when it carried an account of the match between Eton College and Harrow School. In 1918 and 1919, as no first-class cricket was being played due to the First World War, the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year were chosen from public schools. The first Young Wisden Cricketer of the Year was named in 2008, in the 144th edition of Wisden Cricketers` Almanack, in an effort to "help raise the profile of schools cricket, especially at state schools." The first winner was Jonathan Bairstow of St Peter`s School, York.