
My Golden Summer, 1993: England's cluelessness and the calamitous Atherton run-out
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
“I’ve never been a technically brilliant player. I’ve had to work hard for everything”
“It’s tough being me in this dressing room”
The most legendary of cricket families
"People didn’t seem to think cricket was a tough game, but I knew different"
"It was gloriously fearless cricket: this was England, but not as we knew it"
Back in 2017, Will Macpherson picked out the legendary all-rounder and nine others
"We saw Buttler against the West Indies on this ground with a heavy head and with his balance all wrong"
"They are playing him as if he were Shane Warne"
Is it time to do away with the dreaded light meter?
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.