
Cricket And Poetry: A History
"O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago."
"O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago."
"Like a cricketing Moses, never to see the Promised Land for himself."
James Marsh picks out 10 notable Boxing Day performances.
"To really show your worth, you need to have hunches and in order to test those hunches, you will need…
"Chris Jordan is ridiculous."
‘Colman's Mustard Heads the Field.'
"It’s one of the game’s most spectacular moments. It is also among its cruellest."
"My daughter said I was a disgrace."
A piece of gilded tin with a ball on top is no guarantee of greatness.
The England and Middlesex opener runs the gauntlet...
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.