
Quiz! Name the players with the most post-war Ashes wickets
22 names, five minutes. All the best!
22 names, five minutes. All the best!
<p class="intro-p">Freddie Cox revisits the moment when <a href="https://www.wisden.com/players/jonathan-trott">Jonathan Trott</a> ran out Simon Katich to set the tone for England…
"Statistics are often boring and can be unjust, but in this instance they are interesting and revealing"
"Depending on conditions, I think Broady's probably got the upper hand"
"I needed them to play, I needed them to jump around a bit, I needed them to feel uncomfortable"
“It was the perfect, bizarre, unconventional innings for that stage of the game”
‘Bres, do you know anything about lads in an ambulance?'
“Trumper the champion was considered better on bad pitches than good ones”
"A classically English hero had emerged"
"[They] used it as example of my overbearing micro-management of our players"
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.