
Rory Burns' tweaked technique turns heads in County Championship opener
The 31-year-old has remodelled his batting
The 31-year-old has remodelled his batting
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"I said to myself as I walked off ‘that’s never going to happen again’"
"If he hadn’t have got injured he would have comfortably played 100 Tests"
"From the first ever hundred to 16 wickets on debut"
"The infamous buttery-fingered fails"
"The Thorpe ball was the new Walsh in a nutshell"
"The relief, you wouldn’t believe it"
Vaughan said that he wanted a team that "didn't have any baggage"
Eight of the team featured in the 2005 Ashes
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out July 15:
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.