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 2013.

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Contents list:

Kris Pathirana on community and growing up in south Wales
John Stone recalls Sid Barnes
Jackie Litherland praise Durham in verse
Vaneisa Baksh on the start of the three Ws
Steve Menary reports on how cricket is thriving on a remote island
Qaiser Mohammad Ali on a coach who is going places
Christopher Sandford on an all-rounder in more ways than one
Kit Harris has surprising news for cricket historians
Cris Andrews tries to get to the bottom of an underperforming legend
John Drew played against the Pakistani great, or at least he thinks he did
Dylan Richards says Virginia Woolf used cricket to dissect big issues
Luke Alfred on the time Nelson met Clive, via Ali
Scott Oliver provides a brief history of Minor Counties’ FA Cup-style giant-killings
Ricky Ellcock tells his astonishing story
Ben Duncan-Duggal revisits the Tebbit test
Tawhid Qureshi on the fierce rivalries in South Asian cricket
Ben Jacob traces Keshav Maharaj’s lineage
Itay Goder speaks to several Israeli national team members on the front line