
The Ten: Acts of skulduggery
"It's not all teas and scones"
"It's not all teas and scones"
"He believed that Hitler and the Nazis were an evil that had to be stopped"
“This thing about people having time to play... it’s still an illusion of sorts”
"He was only 30 and his cricket career was over"
"They’d come to bury English cricket at Lord’s. And then Ben Stokes picked it up off the floor"
“Javed tapped me on the shoulder and said 'Allah smiled on me today'. He knew”
The unblinking assassin who tamed thunder and lightning
"We bowled at each other in the nets but we pitched the ball up!"
From Jamaica 1990 to Mumbai 2012
"Cricket grounds are as effective as antidepressants"
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out August 11:
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.