
Wisden's Border-Gavaskar Trophy team of the 21st century
Only one active cricketer makes the list
Only one active cricketer makes the list
"Sometimes it takes a bit of outside-the-box thinking to get cricketers to realise their full potential"
"Bowling at Tendulkar, you didn’t want to just get him out but you wanted to get his respect"
From Hobbs and Sutcliffe to Hayden and Langer
"I was an arrogant prick"
"You want to go off, don’t you?"
"He was so hungover"
How the former Aussie opener nearly didn't get the chance to make history
"The curry chicken tastes like s**t"
"Everyone’s looking for that player who is like Sehwag"
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.