
From the UAE to Magaluf – the stereotypical club cricket tours
"What goes on tour stays on tour. Hopefully..."
"What goes on tour stays on tour. Hopefully..."
"Winter nets are here! New faces are welcome, but who’s going to turn up this year?"
"Friday night is the toughest time of the week for the club cricketer"
From short strolls to global adventures ...
"I felt strangely privileged to have visited Pakistan"
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"Sometimes it takes a bit of outside-the-box thinking to get cricketers to realise their full potential"
"For us boys, it was heaven"
"Players whose time in the limelight was shorter and less happy than it should have been"
"We had a pretty similar approach, me and Tuffers"
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out May 22:
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
The 158th edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the world’s finest sports writing, and reflects on an unprecedented year dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Writers include Lawrence Booth, Sir Garfield Sobers, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Gideon Haigh, Andy Zaltzman, Tom Holland, Duncan Hamilton, Robert Winder, Matthew Engel, Scyld Berry, Derek Pringle, Jack Leach and James Anderson. As usual, Wisden includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
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.