
'I only shake hands with fast bowlers' - How Ian Chappell riled Dennis Lillee out of early retirement
'I'll take more wickets than anybody else next season in World Series Cricket'
'I'll take more wickets than anybody else next season in World Series Cricket'
"It's not all teas and scones"
The famous moments that have taken place in that most vaunted of practice areas: the nets
"When it comes to actual scraps, when the game becomes more Laurel and Hardy than Ali and Frazier"
"Unbreakable bonds and faulty networks"
“In that heat of the moment I really wanted to physically beat him”
"They performed miraculous cricketing deeds"
From Larwood and Voce to Lillee and Thomson
"His long hair flying and his features adorned with a moustache in the best tradition of old-time cricketers"
"I felt bullet-proof and ten-foot-tall because of that"
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out May 22:
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.