World Test Championship 2021-23

South Africa v India

India's World Test Championship pursuit now has almost no margin for error

Can India qualify for the WTC final again?

Ashes 2021/22
'There had to be more desperation' - Ricky Ponting and Alastair Cook criticise Rory Burns for not diving in attempt to avoid run out

The dismissal was Burns' seventh Test duck in the last 12 months

by Wisden Staff / January 15, 2022
Ashes 2021/22
'Bringing the game into disrepute' - Pundits angry at Ashes delay for rain 'you can hardly feel'

“You know, sometimes I'm not sure Test cricket deserves to survive"

by Wisden Staff / January 14, 2022
South Africa v India
CricViz: Bounce angle for overturned Dean Elgar-Ashwin lbw not unusual

SuperSport don't control HawkEye

by Wisden Staff / January 14, 2022
South Africa v India
Why Virat Kohli is unlikely to get banned for his Cape Town outburst, and why it’s different to Kagiso Rabada’s celebration ban

Kohli last copped a demerit point in 2019

by Ben Gardner / January 14, 2022
Ashes 2021/22
Watch: Marnus Labuschagne walks across, slips over, gets bowled in one of the strangest Test dismissals ever

What on earth...

by Wisden Staff / January 14, 2022
Series Editorial
After Bumrah no-ball, Dale Steyn suggests radical ‘free hit’ law change in Test cricket to protect tailenders

"I’m still one for being hard and coming hard"

by Wisden Staff / January 12, 2022
Ashes 2021/22
Moeen Ali: I don't see Eoin Morgan as a future head coach

"Someone like Chris Jordan who does a bit of everything, I think he would be a very good coach"

by Wisden Staff / January 9, 2022
Ashes 2021/22
Haseeb Hameed and the fragility of hope

Is that it, then, for Haseeb Hameed, for now?

by Ben Gardner / January 9, 2022
Ashes 2021/22
Watch: Pat Cummins nails Buttler and Wood with two unplayable inswingers in one of the great Ashes overs

A sensational fast bowler

by Wisden Staff / January 9, 2022

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January '22 Issue

A 12-page special feature on the racism scandal which has engulfed English cricket
Ashes – Dawid Malan speaks to Phil Walker about trying to nail down the No.3 position, James Wallace looks back at the painful recent history of English spinners in Australia, and Greg Chappell tells John Stern he’d rather spend time with David Warner than some of the more “squeaky clean” players
Columnists – Lawrence Booth questions whether Eoin Morgan is still worth his place in England’s white-ball sides, Andrew Miller says the Vaughan supremacy is over, Adam Collins analyses Tim Paine’s demise and Pat Cummins’ coronation, and Neil Manthorp argues that AB de Villiers’ career was unfulfilled
Jo Harman on the worrying issue of concussion in cricket
Misbah-ul-Haq on a career like no other
Kate Cross tells us she’s never felt more comfortable as an England cricketer

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World Test Championship 2021-23

India's World Test Championship pursuit now has almost no margin for error

'There had to be more desperation' - Ricky Ponting and Alastair Cook criticise Rory Burns for not diving in attempt to avoid run out

'Bringing the game into disrepute' - Pundits angry at Ashes delay for rain 'you can hardly feel'

CricViz: Bounce angle for overturned Dean Elgar-Ashwin lbw not unusual

Why Virat Kohli is unlikely to get banned for his Cape Town outburst, and why it’s different to Kagiso Rabada’s celebration ban

Watch: Marnus Labuschagne walks across, slips over, gets bowled in one of the strangest Test dismissals ever

After Bumrah no-ball, Dale Steyn suggests radical ‘free hit’ law change in Test cricket to protect tailenders

Moeen Ali: I don't see Eoin Morgan as a future head coach

Haseeb Hameed and the fragility of hope

Watch: Pat Cummins nails Buttler and Wood with two unplayable inswingers in one of the great Ashes overs

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