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:

Matt Thacker introduces issue 47 of the Nightwatchman

Mark Rice-Oxley comes back to cricket after a quarter of a century

Stephen Brenkley sets the scene for the Ashes Test series of 1926

Garfield Robinson wonders about the rise of the maximum

Robert Selby muses about the bowling-machine batter

Richard Clarke says friendship is a difficult topic for middle-aged men

Photo special – remembering Graham Thorpe

Daniel Gallan laments an era that now seems long ago

Steve Menary lifts the lid on unregulated betting companies

John Drew finds that the play’s the thing

Simon Lister on the incredible Brisbane tie

Qaiser Mohammad Ali recalls the making of two world records

Cris Andrews on a summer when the rain became the star

Peter Mason describes how Clyde Walcott turned a nation’s cricket around

Brian Lara breaks the world record for the first time

Tom Law says there has been a shameless abdication of responsibility

James Butler goes looking for boundaries and borders

Richard Edwards remembers the emergence of Sri Lanka as a cricketing nation

Benjamin Golby wonders how England tourists will fare in Pakistan

Paul Edwards lauds a true man of cricket