
'Cricket South Africa, I want to show you how good I am still if you have forgotten it' - Faf du Plessis on his IPL final heroics
Faf scored 86 in the final
Faf scored 86 in the final
'It was out of our control'
Will Dhoni make the cut?
Do you agree?
A strange moment
The batter hit the next ball for a six
"I feel like I may end up letting the team down if I play the way I want to play."
Shot of the day
"With the quicks, the real quicks, the timeline is shot to pieces"
It's unfair, but emotions matter for little
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.