
'Just a quirky habit' or 'plain cheating'? Smith scuffing incident divides opinion
"What was he thinking — if he was thinking anything at all?"
"What was he thinking — if he was thinking anything at all?"
"Players who laughed in the face of disability and proclaimed: 'Tis nothing but a scratch, sir!'”
"To Victorian eyes, the raw deal handed to the ‘A’s’ was just the latest slight to add to our existing…
"That’s my kind of cricketer, far more than Steve"
"I knew for sure that my heart was lost forever"
"There was hope, once; the promise of a different future"
"It was life-affirming collective euphoria"
"The history of the game is full of curious culinary yarns"
"Just because you can bowl at 90mph-plus doesn't mean you have to bowl two yards shorter"
"When it comes to actual scraps, when the game becomes more Laurel and Hardy than Ali and Frazier"
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.