TO the cricketer, the approach of May means one thing and one thing only-the return of what he secretly regards as the only real game to play. At this time of the year the air is full of promise, and everywhere bats are being unwrapped and flannels restored to the lisht of day ; grounds reawaken, and at the nets the knock of bat on ball is heard again. And to the non-playing cricketer Wisden becomes not merely the solace of a desolate winter, but a live reference book again ; the county table is open for reshuffling, individual records lose their security, and the book of cricket history lies open at a fair page. This evening Colonel Philip Trevor , one of the leading writers on the game, will give an authoritative survey of the prospects for 1928.