
Wisden Cricket Monthly issue 60: Cricket at a crossroads
Personal perspectives on a rapidly changing landscape
Personal perspectives on a rapidly changing landscape
"One word out of place now and you will spend your life apologising for it"
'Young cricketers are only looking at becoming T20 players'
"Make no mistake, the IPL is disrupting the traditional international programme"
"We spoke that day, I told Bumble how I felt, he accepted he had made a mistake and apologised and…
"I personally see a difference between things said in confidence and things said in public"
"There has been a massive shifting of the goalposts"
"The lack of any action from match referee Javagal Srinath sitting there in his nice air-conditioned room beggars belief"
"What was he thinking — if he was thinking anything at all?"
A look back at when England won the Akai Singer Champions Trophy
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out January 19:
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.