
Warne's first act of Ashes deception: The Hick tour game mauling that bluffed England into taking the leggie lightly
“We didn’t want to show England anything"
“We didn’t want to show England anything"
"I sat there thinking, ‘I want to do that’"
“When you teach someone to bat, you teach them to bat like Ramprakash”
Ten kid geniuses, ten very different careers
From Graeme Hick to Phil Simmons
From manipulating a match for a leather jacket to denying a demi-god a double
"No mean feat, then or now"
"From the start he has been a prodigy"
"At that moment keeping quiet seems like quite a good idea, and so that’s what Hick does"
“These were wonderful and heady times for all connected with the county”
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.