
'You can't mess with Mother Cricket' – Tim Bresnan on the infamous sprinkler celebration
"It came back to bite us I reckon"
"It came back to bite us I reckon"
Back in 2017, Will Macpherson picked out the legendary all-rounder and nine others
"It’s not the individual performances I remember, but the finals and the trophies"
From leprechauns and trumpeters to dreadlocked cross-dressing dancers
“Akmal you have my heart... don’t drop it!”
“I don’t know why he doesn’t like me, maybe it is because my face is real and his face is…
“I loved that home support, and was very grateful”
The England leg-spinner on making history in Australia
Quicks rip through England on rain-disrupted evening
Unbroken triple-century partnership between Marsh and Smith confirms Aussie dominance.
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.