
Pizzazz, catharsis, and heroes old and new: The summer before the summer to end all summers
"It was gloriously fearless cricket: this was England, but not as we knew it"
"It was gloriously fearless cricket: this was England, but not as we knew it"
"People ask me now: ‘Do you miss it?’ No, I don’t miss it"
"They were better than what we were. And we were nowhere near good enough"
"I don't think it'll be a problem – Stokes for a one-off Test"
"I had literally thrown everything at Clarke and nothing worked"
"Go and watch the whole thing again, I can hardly bowl any bouncers"
Harmison spent eight weeks at the Premier League club in the run up to England's 2004 tour of the West…
"The game was over in a day and a half"
‘Here he comes, the silly old sod.’
"I could see Shoaib losing it and losing it and losing it"
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.