
The Wisden Club Cricket Hall of Fame: Ron Cross
" A stalwart umpire of the Hampshire cricketing circuit"
" A stalwart umpire of the Hampshire cricketing circuit"
"Some of the guys in the dressing room weren’t too happy that I turned down the single"
“My dad sits next to me and says, 'Don’t worry, one day you’ll play Test cricket for England.'”
"Perhaps the most complete fast bowler of them all, with figures to match"
"It’s a game of fine lines and you need to make the most of your opportunities"
"I really did wish I’d been forced to join the massed ranks of the right"
"I don’t know if there is a cricketer who has had as many different injuries as I have"
"Tennyson's success as a batsman was the most surprising feature of last season's cricket"
"Venom was only part of his armoury"
"My Test match average, 72, would have actually gone up had those runs been counted"
Issue 39 of WCM is in shops from December 24:
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.