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"He got me there, didn't he? Dirtied my clothes."
"He got me there, didn't he? Dirtied my clothes."
"Keith Miller was responsible for turning his attention to slip fielding"
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
Issue 42 of WCM is in shops from March 25:
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.