
Robert Croft on bowling with Tufnell, the Old Trafford rearguard and Glamorgan memories
"We had a pretty similar approach, me and Tuffers"
"We had a pretty similar approach, me and Tuffers"
"When Jacques Kallis edged his first ball to first slip I thought it might be one of my days"
"Some of the guys in the dressing room weren’t too happy that I turned down the single"
“My dad sits next to me and says, 'Don’t worry, one day you’ll play Test cricket for England.'”
"To play with Steve and Mark Waugh and other Australian greats was a big learning curve"
"To be honest, I wasn’t that into cricket as a kid"
"There were almost 10,000 Brits in the ground and the scenes at the end were astonishing"
"I was lucky that I performed and took to international cricket so early"
"I always knew that I could make a really big score in a one-day game"
"I’m chuffed to bits and incredibly grateful to have had a long career"
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out January 19:
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.