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Ranked: How modern seam bowling greats fared after their 100th Test

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Ben Stokes warned for inadvertently putting saliva on the ball

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‘We just want consistency’: Root left frustrated by another hasty third umpire call

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Watch: Kohli urges Stokes to keep batting after batsman pulls out twice due to sightscreen

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How Kohli used match-ups to perfection to plot Zak Crawley dismissal

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Broad, Root remonstrate with umpires after hasty third umpire call

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England's lowest first innings scores away from home this century

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Watch: Virat Kohli hilariously imitates Steve Smith in the nets

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Rating India's current wicketkeeping options in T20Is

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Watch: Ben Foakes shows off ridiculously fast hands in training

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India v England 2021: TV channel, live streaming, match start time & schedule for the Test series

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India v England, third Test: Dream11 predictions, fantasy tips & predicted 11 for pink ball Test

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What should England's bowling attack be for the day-night Test? Wisden writers have their say

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India v England, third Test preview: Predicted lineups, pitch & weather forecast for the pink-ball Test

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Pretty in Pink: Wisden's day-night Test world XI

Featured

Wisden Cricket Monthly issue 41: The stories of England's black cricketers

Women's Cricket

Female cricketers in England don’t have to dream big anymore – and that’s a good thing

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Nowhere to turn – The travails of an English spinner in India

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England's rotation policy has softened the edges of an untouchable series

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Sandwichgate: The best jokes and memes

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Why Ajinkya Rahane decided against cutting a cake upon his return from Australia

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Team India's signatures on gifted jersey to Nathan Lyon amuses fans

DRS operator admits to fourth stump error in Sydney Test

Mohammed Siraj: An ode to the skill that's masked by the story

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Why India's mid-innings message in Sydney was never delivered to Ashwin & Vihari

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A world of Paine: Fans take aim at the wrong Tims

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Four Australian cracks, exposed by India, that England could widen

Wisden Almanack 2020

Funny, determined, and an all-action hero: Paul Allott's tribute to Bob Willis

The life and times of Bob Willis – Almanack

Seymour Nurse: 1933-2019

Cricket and mental health: A healing at Lord's – Almanack

Quizzes

Quiz! Every Indian opener in Tests against England this century

Quiz! Players with the highest bowling averages in men's ODIs since 2010

Quiz! Players with the most sixes in Test cricket since 2010

Quiz! Guess the Australia Test debutant from the match

Quiz! Name the England Test debutant from the match

Quiz! Bowlers with the most international five-wicket hauls in the 2000s

Quiz! Name the second highest run-scorer from every IPL edition

Quiz! Name the batsmen whose Test batting averages never dipped below 40

Legend of Roy: The Andrew Symonds story

Legend of Roy: The Andrew Symonds story

By Jo Harman

Jo Harman / June 30, 2020

Wisden Cricket Monthly magazine editor Jo Harman looks back on the career of a rare and special talent, who for a time was among the most complete all-round cricketers in the world before disappearing almost as quickly as he arrived.

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Wisden Almanack

The peerless Darren Lehmann, a first-class cricket giant – Almanack

Bob Simpson: Enterprising leader, first-rate batsman – Almanack

The summer a young Graeme Smith silenced his doubters – Almanack

Hugh Tayfield: South Africa's greatest spinner

Glen Chapple: The leader who inspired Lancashire to County Championship glory

Ken Higgs: A seam bowler who always commanded respect – Almanack

Martin Bicknell: The best bowler of his generation not to have had a decent go at Test cricket

Dick Motz: The cricketer of a schoolboy's dreams – Almanack

The summer Alan Butcher reached his peak – Almanack

Kapil Dev's first majestic English summer – Almanack

Wisden Cricket Gear Showcase 2020

Your Game

Cricket Gear

Stag Cricket: Everything you need to know

Club Cricket

An ode to the rain card

Club Cricket

From the UAE to Magaluf – the stereotypical club cricket tours

Club Cricket

Club cricket stereotypes: The characters you meet at winter nets

Club Cricket

Nights out and praying for rain – pre-match prep for club cricketers

Club Cricket

You miss, I hit: Why club cricketers should always bowl straight

Club Cricket

The Wisden Club Cricket Hall of Fame: Ron Cross

Cricket Coaching

Nailing cricket fitness in the off-season, with Kinetic Cricket's Ben Scott

Moment of the Year/Decade?

Decade In Review

2000s in Review

Wisden's Test spell of the 2000s, No.4: Dale Steyn's 5-23

Decade in review

Wisden’s T20I Team of the Decade – David Willey makes the cut, but where is MS Dhoni?

Decade in review

Who should be the spinner in Wisden’s Test team of the decade?

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The Five Wisden Cricketers of the Decade

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Adam Collins

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Wisden Cricket Monthly editor-in-chief

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