World Cricket And All That Shapes It Covered By Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2023 is the longest edition on record. It not only records the present state of global cricket but also reflects...
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20 of 118 episodesSovereigns, stars, stewards, scorers, statisticians … Steven Lynch on this year’s Wisden obituaries
Two monarchs lead the obituaries in the 2023 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack . As always, it is a melancholy but matchless memorial t...
From teenage record breaker to players’ champion: James Harris of Glamorgan and the PCA
After a record-breaking early start in county cricket for Glamorgan, James Harris is back with them after spells with Middlesex and Kent. He...
The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history
Many eccentric geniuses have written about cricket, and indeed played it. Few have been as eccentric as Major Rowland Bowen – or had his gen...
Two testaments of cricket and war
John Broom has combined his passions for cricket and military history in two books on global cricket in both world wars: Cricket In The Firs...
A story made for the movies – Pakistan women’s cricket
Based in Mumbai, Aayush Puthran is an experienced cricket reporter and analyst, with a strong focus on women’s cricket. He has written an in...
After a hard day in Nagpur, the great cricket writer Mike Coward gives a masterclass on Australian cricket
Mike Coward is among the world’s most distinguished and distinctive cricket writers and broadcasters, although he graciously declines the ti...
An elephant never forgets India’s first Test victory in England
In August 1971 Bella the elephant from Chessington Zoo travelled to the Oval to watch India’s historic first Test match victory in England....
How professionals save soccer – but not cricket – from public school amateurs, explains sports historian Richard Sanders
In the British isles cricket had a start on association football of over a hundred years as a game with Laws, organization and popular follo...
Cricket, diplomacy and a fierce despatch from Freddie Flintoff
Cricketer, diplomat and author Tom Fletcher is now Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. As the UK’s ambassador to Lebanon, he made notable...
England versus Pakistan – the first seventy years with historian Najum Latif
As England play their first Test series in Pakistan for nearly twenty years one of the country’s leading cricket historians, Najum Latif , d...
Another thrilling spell from fast bowling legend Wes Hall
Few sights in cricket’s history have been more thrilling than the great West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall in the 1960s bounding in from his l...
Before D’Oliveira – the glories and the shame of England’s Tests against South Africa
In his book Swallows And Hawke , co-written with past podcast guest André Odendaal, the historian Richard Parry gives a uniquely penetrating...
A select offering from Ed Smith
Ed Smith played cricket for Kent, Middlesex (as captain) and England, was an incisive commentator on Test Match Special and was England’s Ch...
From the captains’ table – cricket in two village communities
Two highly successful captains of village cricket teams, Tom Greaves of Reed, Hertfordshire, and Callum Widdows of Horningsham, Wiltshire, a...
The cricketing car park of Beirut
Fernando Sugath , a Sri Lankan expatriate, has been playing cricket in Lebanon for 25 years, in some extraordinary places and despite some e...
Wendy Wimbush – fifty years of keeping but never settling scores
Wendy Wimbush has given a lifetime of service to cricket. She is best known as the BBC scorer in the 1970s but has also worked in other capa...
Mike Coward - sixty years of great cricket writing
After sixty years’ experience in all forms of media, Mike Coward has become one of the most honoured reporters and analysts of cricket in hi...
At the wonder house of cricket books
Most of cricket’s history for nearly three hundred years can be found behind a small shopfront in a quiet suburban street in Surrey, forty m...
Geoff Boycott celebrates yet another century
Throughout his playing career, Sir Geoffrey Boycott made a habit of celebrating special occasions with a century. It makes him the ideal and...