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 48 of the Nightwatchman

Patrick Hargreaves on how oil and cricket are big news in Guyana

David Tossell goes back to the start of a brutal tour

Roger Domeneghetti charts the rise and fall of a cricket revolution

James Thellusson is ousted

Huw Richards laments the passing of cricket at St Helen’s

Kris Pathirana reflects on Graham Thorpe’s death

S.J. Litherland marks the passing of another season

David Frith had dual heroes in Len and Ray

Stephen Chalke on the one and only Brian Close

Trevor Auger talks to Doug Cowie, who started out all at sea

Matt Appleby gets up on stage

Photo special on England’s leading run scorers

Cris Andrews looks back on England’s Dad’s Army

Hugh Tatham is in reflective mood

Luke Alfred bundles Tony Greig into the back of a car

Steve Menary examines the threat of T10 tournaments

John Stone remembers the quicks from the pits

Tawhid Qureshi on how political turmoil affected his family

Christopher Sandford looks back to the MCC tour of 1954–55