
WCM Book of the Month: Summer Days Promise by Paul Edwards
In the August 2022 issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, Jon Hotten reviews Summer Days Promise by Paul Edwards.
In the August 2022 issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, Jon Hotten reviews Summer Days Promise by Paul Edwards.
"It was a long, hard, fun day’s cricket, the right kind"
"Since his comeback, Boycott had batted for 22-and-a-half hours, and I’d watched all of them"
"Gould is brilliant on the arcana of international officiating"
"I thought I’d literally dropped the Ashes, I really did"
"Here is a picture to quicken the blood"
"At that moment keeping quiet seems like quite a good idea, and so that’s what Hick does"
'In a way the cover drive is like a weather vane, a diviner of batting’s unknown future'
"It has been the Red Rose era, a dynastic span started by Jack Bond"
A selection of some of the best cricket books of 2019
The latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out January 19:
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
The 158th edition of the most famous sports book in the world – published every year since 1864 – contains some of the world’s finest sports writing, and reflects on an unprecedented year dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Writers include Lawrence Booth, Sir Garfield Sobers, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Gideon Haigh, Andy Zaltzman, Tom Holland, Duncan Hamilton, Robert Winder, Matthew Engel, Scyld Berry, Derek Pringle, Jack Leach and James Anderson. As usual, Wisden includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
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.