
The Ten: Cricket songs
"Henry Cowen pops in his headphones and listens to some of cricket’s best (and worst) songs"
"Henry Cowen pops in his headphones and listens to some of cricket’s best (and worst) songs"
Some long, some snappy, a few arse-nippers and large dollops of tension
<p class="drop-cap-intro">Hours after trying to resusciate the late Dean Jones, his fellow commentator, former Australia quick <a href="https://wisden.com/players/brett-lee">Brett Lee</a> returned…
The famous moments that have taken place in that most vaunted of practice areas: the nets
"He is the same as Ricky Ponting"
Five Australians make the XI
Three South Africans among them
"Not many batsmen can play cat and mouse with Shane Warne"
"I believe he has got all those three components to go past Sachin"
Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Justin Langer, Michael Clarke, Shane Watson and Alex Blackwell have confirmed their participation in the game.
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.