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A man of many talents
A man of many talents
"Steve Smith uses these things to motivate himself, so stand by"
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"Formidable characters and questionable umpiring meant the series was more fractious than most"
"The months that followed the series saw huge changes in the perception of cricket in England"
Wildly varying degrees of pessimism abound
"The stuff nightmares are made of"
From Pelham “Plum” Warner to Warwick Armstrong
"To be honest, I wasn’t that into cricket as a kid"
22 names, four minutes
Issue 39 of WCM is in shops from December 24:
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Inside the 157th edition:
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.