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Butcher: I don’t understand why there is no longer a need for a national selector

"I find it curious"

Stories
The 'season in the sun' XI

The WCW panel got to work

by Wisden Staff / October 23, 2020
Podcast
Is Joe Clarke on his way to becoming the next James Hildreth?

"24, time rushes on, good young players come through"

by Wisden Staff / October 18, 2020
Podcast
Will the IPL affect Chris Jordan's England place?

"He is Morgan’s go-to man at the death"

by Wisden Staff / October 18, 2020
England v Australia
‘England underrate him’ – Why David Willey should open the bowling for England in T20 cricket

"I think it’s worth underlining quite how good David Willey is in the Powerplay"

by Wisden Staff / September 4, 2020
Podcast
Should England bring Dom Bess into their ODI plans?

Bess has played just 15 List A games

by Wisden Staff / August 5, 2020
Podcast
Pakistan 'bonkers' to pick two spinners for opening England Test

Pakistan picked both Shadab Khan and Yasir Shah in their XI for the first Test

by Wisden Staff / August 5, 2020
Podcast
Why Chris Woakes is ahead of Jofra Archer in English conditions

"Archer is kind of a Cummins of English attack"

by Wisden Staff / July 31, 2020
Podcast
How good an off-spinner is Dom Bess?

The Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast panel discuss Bess' start to the summer

by Wisden Staff / July 22, 2020
Podcast
'The only comparison I can think of is Imran' – Wisden writers discuss Stokes' recent form

“We are genuinely watching one of the great cricketers of our time and maybe of all time.”

by Wisden Staff / July 22, 2020

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wisden cricket weekly podcast

Butcher: I don’t understand why there is no longer a need for a national selector

The 'season in the sun' XI

Is Joe Clarke on his way to becoming the next James Hildreth?

Will the IPL affect Chris Jordan's England place?

‘England underrate him’ – Why David Willey should open the bowling for England in T20 cricket

Should England bring Dom Bess into their ODI plans?

Pakistan 'bonkers' to pick two spinners for opening England Test

Why Chris Woakes is ahead of Jofra Archer in English conditions

How good an off-spinner is Dom Bess?

'The only comparison I can think of is Imran' – Wisden writers discuss Stokes' recent form

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