
The Ten: Ill-fated captaincy stints
From Kim Hughes to Kevin Pietersen
From Kim Hughes to Kevin Pietersen
"The men whose approach to leadership caused recriminations and revolts"
The famous moments that have taken place in that most vaunted of practice areas: the nets
"When it comes to actual scraps, when the game becomes more Laurel and Hardy than Ali and Frazier"
"Statistics are often boring and can be unjust, but in this instance they are interesting and revealing"
"Playing’s great but winning’s better!"
"The marvellous appeal of Hughes’s batting lies in the repertoire of his strokes"
"I didn’t know that cricket books could be written like this"
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.