
Walter Hammond: The 'self-taught cricketer' who became a batting great
Hammond scored 50,551 first-class runs – 7,249 of them in Tests
Hammond scored 50,551 first-class runs – 7,249 of them in Tests
“I’ll never in my life make way for that bugger”
"Barring the Graces themselves, the county has never had such an all-round player"
"The club is in touch with the player concerned and has initiated a full internal investigation"
“Once Courtney had arrived, they used to arrive looking like ghosts because they were so terrified”
The club did reveal promising financial projections
'Some teams shrink on the big occasions but we puffed our chests out and we relished it'
Arthur Milton scored a century on Test debut in 1958. He was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year the…
"I want to be a consistent member of the England Test side"
India's Test No.3 becomes first Indian to represent the club, since Javagal Srinath in 1995
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.