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 49 of the Nightwatchman

Annie Chave meets Waleed Khan, who was left for dead in a terror attack

David Tossell writes a love letter to a piece of cricketing history

Marcus Leroux is in Porto with the Tigers

CS Chiwanza looks at Tawanda Muyeye’s eventful upbringing in Zimbabwe

Nicholas Hogg deals in stolen goods

Liam Herringshaw marks the sad end of the York Vale Cricket League

Photo special – catches win matches

Oliver Park takes a look at what we have lost

Qaiser Mohammad Ali documents the career of the talismanic Rishabh Pant

Cris Andrews reckons the Aussie selectors missed a trick or two

Giles Wilcock digs into the archives to uncover some grisly episodes

Scott Oliver marvels at SF Barnes

Jonathan Rice dons his deerstalker and gets out his magnifying glass

Robbie Book tells a fishy tale

Harry Pearson finds there’s plenty of life in the close-season clubhouse

Christopher Sandford looks back 80 years to the post-war rebirth of cricket

Aryaman Varma talks us through a day in the life as Dubai Capitals’ new recruit

Jeff Thomas finds winter solace on England’s tour of New Zealand