
The long and short of it: Cricket's ten most remarkable journeys
From short strolls to global adventures ...
From short strolls to global adventures ...
"Sometimes it takes a bit of outside-the-box thinking to get cricketers to realise their full potential"
"Players whose time in the limelight was shorter and less happy than it should have been"
"Players who laughed in the face of disability and proclaimed: 'Tis nothing but a scratch, sir!'”
"The tearaways who shook the scene all too briefly before speeding away in the blink of an eye"
"Bowling at Tendulkar, you didn’t want to just get him out but you wanted to get his respect"
"The lacklusture and luckless years and the leanest of lean spells"
From Hobbs and Sutcliffe to Hayden and Langer
"Cricket has always found bizarre ways of seeing itself delayed"
“It’s tough being me in this dressing room”
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.