
My Golden Summer, 1993: England's cluelessness and the calamitous Atherton run-out
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"We had a pretty similar approach, me and Tuffers"
"Players who laughed in the face of disability and proclaimed: 'Tis nothing but a scratch, sir!'”
Silverwood has facilitated a smallish upturn in the five-day game
"Jonny Bairstow deserves more respect"
"I always knew that I could make a really big score in a one-day game"
"It’s a game of fine lines and you need to make the most of your opportunities"
"At that moment I didn’t realise what we’d done"
“This thing about people having time to play... it’s still an illusion of sorts”
“I was privileged to play with a genius in Saqlain Mushtaq”
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.