
Ian Bell: A cricket life
"The best I batted for England was my double hundred at The Oval"
"The best I batted for England was my double hundred at The Oval"
Can England's captain have it all?
From Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji to Sir Pelham Warner
"It’s been called the most character-revealing of sports, but is it easy to write about?"
We all want to change the world, some of this lot did, and some didn’t
"All kits are garish, but some kits are more garish than others"
"Unbreakable bonds and faulty networks"
"Cricket is cricket, and Westminster is Westminster, but sometimes the twain shall meet"
"From brutal Bavarian boot camps to soul-destroying stakeouts in Staffordshire"
“Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel”
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.