
The summer Laurie Fishlock made up for lost time – Almanack
"Fishlock's sporting history is a tale of a great enthusiast for games"
"Fishlock's sporting history is a tale of a great enthusiast for games"
"Very rarely has any cricketer jumped more suddenly to the top of the tree"
"His Test entry could be cited as the embodiment of all his batting attributes"
"When I was in good form at the start of the season, I just focused on cashing in"
"A man who enjoys the game and is determined to play it in the best possible spirit"
The Cricket Writers' Club voted him the Best Cricketer of 1962
"At his best he can master the most formidable of bowlers"
"The value of his bowling to his side was incalculable"
"Hutton considered May and Cowdrey the two best batsmen in the world under twenty-five"
"The massive strength of Hanif is an unwavering, single-minded concern for the success of Pakistan cricket"
Issue 39 of WCM is in shops from December 24:
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Inside the 157th edition:
Cricket’s past is steeped in a tradition of great writing and Wisden is making sure its future will be too. The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles which debuted in March 2013 and is available in book and e-book formats.
Every issue features an array of authors from around the world, writing beautifully and at length about the game and its myriad offshoots.