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Publication day is here! Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2024 is the 161st edition. 1552 pages of the greatest sports writing in the world.
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Yesterday, Josh Baker was in the wickets for Worcestershire against Somerset in the Second Eleven Championship. Today, suddenly, he is gone. He was only 20. The match has been abandoned, of course. It is now a day for grief and reflection.
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Making history as the first woman on the cover of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Congratulations @Anya_shrubsole #wisdenjacket #cricket @the_topspin @BloomsburyBooks The 2018 edition is available for pre-order now, £25 when you subscribe (RRP £55)
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We are delighted to reveal the cover for 2017, featuring India’s star batsman @imVkohli playing a reverse sweep.
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WISDEN AWARDS THE LEADING TWENTY20 CRICKETER IN THE WORLD #wisdenawards
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*Cover reveal* The 157th edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2020 Publishing on 9th April 2020. Pre-ordering is now open. #Cricket #wisdenjacket
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BM Duckett, Misbah-ul-Haq, TS Roland-Jones, CR Woakes and Younis Khan are Wisden's 5 Cricketers of the Year!
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The Five Cricketers of the Year in @WisdenAlmanack 2018 are: Shai Hope Heather Knight Jamie Porter Natalie Sciver Anya Shrubsole
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And it’s done. #Wisden2022 #April21
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Here, in full, is the article that has got people talking today: Sharda Ugra’s essay on the politicisation of Indian cricket, from the 2024 Almanack. #Wisden2024
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Cover Reveal. Stuart Broad sports the unmistakable symbol of the year on the cover of Wisden 2021 Publishing 15th April 2021 @StuartBroad8 @the_topspin @WisdenCricket @NightwatchmanXI #wisdenjacket #cricket @bloomsburybooks Pre-order open now
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WISDEN CRICKETERS' ALMANACK AWARDS We are delighted to announce our Five Cricketers of the Year: Tom Blundell, Ben Foakes, @imharmanpreet , @dazmitchell47 and @mattyjpotts . The award is for excellence in, or influence on, the English summer of 2022. #wisdenawards (1/8)
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As Alastair Cook signs for two more years, we can’t help but notice @essexcricket ’s excellent library. That looks like a complete collection!
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And it’s finished. #April20
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The Leading Cricketers in the World in @WisdenAlmanack 2018 are: Virat Kohli and Mithali Raj.
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And it’s finished. The 161st edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack will be published on Thursday 18 April. You can order it at half price here: .
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A very happy birthday to @BLACKCAPS captain Kane Williamson. It's a good day to read @aldersonnotes 's profile when Kane was a @WisdenAlmanack Cricketer of the Year in 2016. #cricketeroftheyear
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Mike Procter 1946—2024 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1970
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Michael Holding was a sublime player and an engaging commentator, but the last twelve months cast a wider legacy in stone. He awed us, he entertained us, and then he taught us. We wish him a happy and healthy retirement.
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COVER REVEAL - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2022📢 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack today reveals the cover of its 159th edition, featuring England Test captain Joe Root. Publishing 21st April. Pre-order #wisdenjacket @WisdenCricket @root66 @BloomsburyBooks
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COVER REVEAL📢 Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum star on the cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2023 @benstokes38 @Bazmccullum Pre-order now. 50% off RRP when you buy a subscription (UK only) Cover photo by Philip Brown @dudleyplatypus #cricket
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17 days to go until the 2024 Almanack. We’ll be counting down with a look at Wisden collections around the world. We want to see yours! Comment below and tag #MyWisdenCollection . For 50% off Wisden, visit .
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COVER REVEAL 📢 Stuart Broad takes the cover of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2024 Publishing 18th April. Pre-order now. 50% off the RRP when you buy a subscription (UK only) #wisdencover24 @BoothCricket @StuartBroad8 @WisdenCricket @BloomsburyBooks
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WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK AWARDS Five Cricketers of the Year (1/8) #wisdenawards
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This day in 2013 was @sachin_rt 's final one in Test cricket. In the 2014 @WisdenAlmanack his former teammate @cricketaakash paid this superb tribute -
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We were very sorry to hear of the death of John Woodcock, who edited @WisdenAlmanack between 1981 and 1986, and for many years was the inimitable cricket correspondent of The Times. His prose was peerless, and his insights were always humane. Cricket has lost a great friend.
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**Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019 - cover reveal** Publishes on 11th April 2019. You can pre-order your copy now - #cricket #wisdenjacket @the_topspin @BloomsburyBooks @WisdenCricket
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A proud moment as our editor @the_topspin presents a leatherbound Almanack to @imrizwanpak , one of our Five Cricketers of the Year in 2021.
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On this day in 1999 the great @windiescricket fast bowler Malcolm Marshall died. His Wisden obituary remembered a remarkable cricketer and a much loved figure in the game. #wisdenobits #wisdenarchive
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Wisden's Leading Woman Cricketer in the World: Ellyse Perry.
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Fantastic to see that @KentCricket have added 2019 @WisdenAlmanack Cricketer of the Year @Tammy_Beaumont to their Wisden honours board at Canterbury. She certainly joins an impressive list of names. #cricketeroftheyear .
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WISDEN AWARDS THE LEADING CRICKETER IN THE WORLD @benstokes38 #cricket #wisden21
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WISDEN AWARDS FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR #wisdenawards
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Enid Bakewell was at Lord's this week to collect the Wisden Trophy for the best Test performance of 1968. Representing England against New Zealand at Christchurch, she scored 114 and 66 not out, and took 3-68 and 5-56. She is still playing cricket at the age of 83. #wisden2024
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Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World: Virat Kohli.
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The 160th Wisden Almanack will be launched at @homeofcricket this evening, in the presence of some very special guests. Follow this thread for a little live-blogging of the occasion.
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The answer to too many questions in cricket is now: because we mustn’t upset India. #wisden2024
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More photographs from the Wisden Almanack awards presentation at Lord's this week. Mark Wood, one of the Five Cricketers of the Year, received a special leatherbound almanack. (1/4)
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We have two new Test nations! Congratulations to Afghanistan and Ireland!
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Hearty congratulations to @jimmy9 on his 600th Test wicket. A good moment to revisit this fine piece by @ZaltzCricket , published in Wisden 2018 to mark his 500th. #ENGvPAK #wisdenarchive
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Wisden Honours The Leading Cricketers in the World #wisdenalmanack2020 #wisdenhonours @benstokes38 @EllysePerry
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Here's a run from 1975 belonging to @petehotchkiss . A few paperbacks in there, and some pretty coloured jackets from the 1970s. Who's next to show off #MyWisdenCollection ?
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Yesterday, our Editor @the_topspin presented @danevn811 with her leatherbound Almanack, to honour her selection as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year.
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On Friday 25 February 1774, a group of 12 men convened in the Star and Garter on Pall Mall in London and devised the second edition of the Laws of Cricket. We hope you will join us in wishing happy 250th birthday to the LBW law. Read the 1774 Laws here:
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One of the best pieces of sports writing you'll read this year. @GeoffLemonSport on the struggles of Australia's Indigenous cricketers, from the 2018 @WisdenAlmanack -
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Happy 83rd birthday to the incomparable Garry Sobers, one of @WisdenAlmanack 's five Cricketers of the Century. Here's what the great @MailSport writer Ian Wooldridge wrote about him in 2000 -
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Brian Close died five years ago today. Here's how he was remembered in his @WisdenAlmanack obituary - including Eric Morecambe's line about the start of the season being signalled by the "sound of leather on Brian Close"
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There are so many unusual occurrences here, even we couldn’t index them all. Can you spot every single one?
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Happy birthday to that delightful @TheRealPCB and @GlamCricket batsman Majid Khan. Here's what @dailymailsport 's Alex Bannister wrote when he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1970. #wisdencricketeroftheyear #wisdenarchive
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Nice to see @BLACKCAPS captain Kane Williamson at @HomeOfCricket today receiving his 2016 leatherbound @WisdenAlmanack . Kane was a Cricketer of the Year in 2016 and also our 2015 Leading Cricketer in the World. Thanks to @Claresk1nner for the pic. #cricketeroftheyear
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Happy 70th birthday to the former @WarwickshireCCC and @windiescricket batsman Alvin Kallicharran. Here's what Robert Jobson wrote when he was a @WisdenAlmanack Cricketer of the Year in 1983.
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Wisden is delighted to announce the first Leading Woman Cricketer in the World: @MegLanning7 of @SouthernStars http://t.co/X3sl1eAjEV
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Only two teams have achieved their first Test win in an “away” fixture: England at Melbourne in 1876-77, and Pakistan at Lucknow in 1952-53. #AFGvIRE
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Moeen Ali has retired from Test cricket. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2015, and our cover star. Here's what @georgedobell1 wrote for the Almanack that year: .
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You still have ten days to enter our annual competition to have your writing published in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Whoever you are, and wherever you live, we love reading your entries. Give it a go! Full details here:
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Sydney Barnes, who died on Boxing Day 1967, may have been the greatest bowler in history. In a brilliant piece from @WisdenAlmanack 2012, the writer Peter Gibbs recalled a difficult day in his company -
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DEREK UNDERWOOD 1945–2024 We mourn the loss of “Deadly” by revisiting three pieces from the Almanack. The first is Norman Preston’s report of the final Ashes Test at The Oval in 1968. Underwood bowled England to victory with minutes to spare. (1/3)
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Happy birthday to legendary @windiescricket fast bowler Michael Holding. Here's what Tony Cozier wrote when Mikey was a @WisdenAlmanack Cricketer of the Year in 1977 -
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A very happy 50th birthday to the man who rewrote @WisdenAlmanack , Brian Charles Lara. Here's what Tony Cozier wrote when he was a Cricketer of the Year in 1995 - plus a rather fabulous poster.
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An all-softback collection, belonging to @naughtiusmaxi10 . But what we want to know is, where are the pre-1933s? Who else wants to show #MyWisdenCollection ?
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A very happy 90th birthday to legendary @windiescricket spinner Sonny Ramadhin. Sonny is one of the oldest surviving @WisdenAlmanack Cricketers of the Year. Here's what we wrote about him in 1951
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The @SomersetCCC Wisden Cricketers of Year honours board has been updated. @Anya_shrubsole #Cricket
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Charlie Dean is bowling on her international debut at Bristol. She’s the first England player to have been born in the 2000s.
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Five of @LancsCCC 's 34 Wisden Cricks of Year and new honours board: Ian Austin, Peter Lee, Clive Lloyd, Andrew Flintoff and Jack Simmons
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The Leading Twenty20 Cricketer in the World, for his class and form in 2022, is @surya_14kumar of @bcci and @mipaltan . He scored 1503 runs at the phenomenal strike-rate of 176 in the calendar year. #wisdenawards (4/8)
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If you fancy featuring alongside England's World Cup heroes in the 2020 @WisdenAlmanack and feel inspired by a remarkable World Cup, why not enter our writing competition? The rules of entry are here - the rest is up to you.
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The incomparable Victor Trumper died on this day in 1915. A century on, historian Carl Bridge assessed his place in Australian cricket and culture in this tremendous @WisdenAlmanack article.
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Lest we forget. On Remembrance Sunday, we recall the great @KentCricket and @englandcricket spinner Colin Blythe, killed in action in 1917. Here is his @WisdenAlmanack obituary - #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget #wisdenobits
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WISDEN AWARDS THE LEADING WOMAN CRICKETER IN THE WORLD #BethMooney #cricket #wisden21
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Congratulations to #Ashes century-maker @roryburns17 , one of this year's five @WisdenAlmanack Cricketers of the Year. Here's what @Phil_Wisden said about him
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It's a case of spot the Australian fan at The Oval today. Cracking atmosphere, though. @cricketcomau v @BCCI #CWC19
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Celebrate the great Jeff Thomson's 68th birthday today by setting aside some time to read Christian Ryan's superb piece about him from @WisdenAlmanack 2013.
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We are delighted to announce that Arjun Singh has won the 2023 Wisden Photograph of the Year. His image of Samson, Hetmyer and Jurel attempting a catch for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL saw off competition from Samiran Chakraborty and Stu Forster to claim the top prize.
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The 2021 edition of the Almanack will be 1,248 pages - slightly thinner than usual, for obvious reasons - but contains more to read than ever. Parts One and Two extend over 300 pages, an increase of 66 on the 2020 edition. Pre-order your edition here:
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Today we remember @NorthantsCCC and @englandcricket batsman, Colin Milburn, who died on this day in 1990. Here is his @WisdenAlmanack obituary - #wisdenobits
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We can confirm that the Duchess of Cambridge is NOT one of this year’s Wisden Cricketers of the Year #cricket
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Today, @kentcricket and @lancscricket dial the clock back in a moment of nostalgia for the forgotten format. A timely reminder of the history and romance of the county cup final. #KENvLAN #RLCfinal
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14 days to go until the 2024 Almanack. How about this for a staircase? Martin Bolton’s found the perfect place for his postwar collection. Use the hashtag #MyWisdenCollection and show us yours! Get 50% off the 2024 edition at .
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11 days to go until the 2024 Almanack. Ian Oakhill’s Wisden corner has nearly every edition — just some interwar volumes left to get. Use the hashtag #MyWisdenCollection and show us your stash! Get 50% off the 2024 edition at .
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Happy birthday to one of @englandcricket 's great stylists, David Gower. On his retirement, Martin Johnson wrote this terrific tribute in the 1994 @WisdenAlmanack -
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The Book of the Year is “An Island’s Eleven: the Story of Sri Lankan Cricket” by @brookeswrites . You can buy it here: . #wisdenawards (6/8)
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"The more we’re told world cricket needs a strong West Indies, the less world cricket seems to do about it." Read the full Notes from the Editor from the 2024 Almanack by clicking on the image below. #wisden2024
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