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Cricket authors (and obsessives) Peter Oborne and Richard Heller have launched a new podcast to help deprived listeners endure a world without cricket. They will chat regularly about cricket...
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2023 is the longest edition on record. It not only records the present state of global cricket but also reflects...
Two monarchs lead the obituaries in the 2023 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack . As always, it is a melancholy but matchless memorial t...
After a record-breaking early start in county cricket for Glamorgan, James Harris is back with them after spells with Middlesex and Kent. He...
Many eccentric geniuses have written about cricket, and indeed played it. Few have been as eccentric as Major Rowland Bowen – or had his gen...
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...
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...
Mike Coward is among the world’s most distinguished and distinctive cricket writers and broadcasters, although he graciously declines the ti...
In August 1971 Bella the elephant from Chessington Zoo travelled to the Oval to watch India’s historic first Test match victory in England....
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...
Cricketer, diplomat and author Tom Fletcher is now Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. As the UK’s ambassador to Lebanon, he made notable...
As England play their first Test series in Pakistan for nearly twenty years one of the country’s leading cricket historians, Najum Latif , d...
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...
In his book Swallows And Hawke , co-written with past podcast guest André Odendaal, the historian Richard Parry gives a uniquely penetrating...
Ed Smith played cricket for Kent, Middlesex (as captain) and England, was an incisive commentator on Test Match Special and was England’s Ch...
Two highly successful captains of village cricket teams, Tom Greaves of Reed, Hertfordshire, and Callum Widdows of Horningsham, Wiltshire, a...
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 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...
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...
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...
Throughout his playing career, Sir Geoffrey Boycott made a habit of celebrating special occasions with a century. It makes him the ideal and...
Alan Higham has become a leading campaigner for the preservation of the county championship as the foundation of first-class cricket in Engl...
Simon Heffer has had a distinguished career as a journalist, historian, academic and man of letters, above all as a cricket-lover who contri...
When Peter Oborne and Richard Heller last spoke to Kobus Olivier , CEO of the Ukraine Cricket Federation, he and his four dogs had escaped t...
Given the joy it has given to the world, the history of Sri Lankan cricket has been strangely neglected. A young author, Nicholas Brookes, h...
The Netherlands has played organized cricket almost as long as England. Steven van Hoogstraten was chairman of the Royal Dutch Cricket Assoc...
The 2009 edition of Wisden Cricketers’Almanack contains a beautiful tribute to Harold Pinter. It was written by the academic and musician Ia...
Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde won major awards in 2020 for their book Cricket 2.0 , tracking the T20 cricket revolution. Tim has now joined...
Charles Sale has been a sports journalist for forty years, almost half of them as the incisive sports diarist of the Daily Mail . In his boo...
The former Sports News Editor of the BBC, Mihir Bose , has written with great authority about British and international sport for nearly fif...
After a playing career in the Netherlands, Middlesex and Somerset Isabelle Westbury has become one of Britain’s most acute writers and broad...
In modest premises in a deprived part of north London, the Haringey Cricket College was a unique institution which developed a generation of...
Year after year the obituary section of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack is one of its most admired features. Its tributes to people who have con...
The arrival of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack is the global publishing event of the year. It makes butterflies stop flapping their wings in the...
After a varied and highly successful business career, Andy Nash was chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club for ten years full of achieveme...
Jonathan Collett is a devotee of Warwickshire, whom he represented at under-19 level. He was Press Secretary for Michael Howard, then Conser...
The late Mike Marqusee, who described himself as a “deracinated New York Marxist Jew”, wrote two of the most daring and important cricket bo...
What defines great cricket writing? Should it be on the side of “progress” in the game? Should it be more representative of the global world...
Kobus Olivier , CEO of the Ukraine Cricket Federation, returns to the latest cricket-themed podcast by Peter Oborne and Richard Heller , wit...
“It’s quite a pleasant day here, warmer and sunny,” says the expatriate cricketer, “and if we won the toss it’s definitely a day to bat firs...
Osman Samiuddin is Senior Editor at Cricinfo, the largest cricket website in the world. He is also the author of The Unquiet Ones , which du...
Mohammed Sadiq Patel is a long-serving activist for equality in sport – and the rest of life. As a lawyer he has pursued some notable cases...
The sports historian Duncan Stone has written a thoroughly irreverent book about English cricket. Different Class destroys many cherished my...
Micky Stewart’s service to English cricket began in the 1950s as a county cricketer for Surrey – a stylish opening or top-order batsman and...
Founded in 1996 and based in London, the Graces CC is the first cricket club in the world specifically for LGBT people. Until this year, it...
The incomparable Henry Blofeld switches on the festive lights as the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed...
Tanya Aldred has become one of Britain’s most respected cricket writers, contributing notably to The Guardian , The Cricketer , Wisden Crick...
Scyld Berry , a former editor of Wisden, has watched nearly 500 England Test matches (more than anyone in history), and reported them for Th...
By popular demand … the brilliant West Indian cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed returns as a guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in t...
Rafaelle Nicholson is the author of Ladies And Lords: A History Of Women’s Cricket In Britain . Having previously presented the highlights o...
In the winter of 1953, the MCC sent a full-strength England team to the West Indies for the first time, led by Len Hutton, the first profess...