
Billy Root: The hard-earned path to a homecoming hundred
“As a young lad, I always wanted to score a hundred at Headingley, albeit for Yorkshire"
“As a young lad, I always wanted to score a hundred at Headingley, albeit for Yorkshire"
"We trust that an extremely strong stance will be taken to keep the integrity of our game"
"The wickets in England do spin. Jeets has shown that. I think I’ve shown that at Chelmsford"
"I’ve just backed the right players"
"I’m very shy around new people"
"We want cricket to be a game for everybody"
"He’s one of the best variation bowlers in the world right now"
"You never envisage going from the hospital straight to the graveyard"
“I’m a 29-year-old who’s probably played a 25- or 26-year-old’s cricket”
"It just hit a very, very deep place, so I had to speak out about it"
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.