
Nowhere to turn – The travails of an English spinner in India
"I’m coming up against players who laugh when they see a wrong ’un"
"I’m coming up against players who laugh when they see a wrong ’un"
"I’m working harder than I’ve ever worked in my life"
"I enjoyed being a player who could win games"
“My dad sits next to me and says, 'Don’t worry, one day you’ll play Test cricket for England.'”
"There were almost 10,000 Brits in the ground and the scenes at the end were astonishing"
“It’s Charles Darwin’s evolution, mate – you’ve got to survive”
"Over the next 12 months the ECB will be putting unprecedented demands on its players"
Jo Harman speaks to the most influential English cricketer of the 20th century
"I thought I’d just play cricket wherever, whenever. It was the same with football"
"A spell of 7-1 is unheard of really, but I believe I’ve bowled better in other games"
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.