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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack #161
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2024
*Standard hardback edition*
The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year – from the likes of Lawrence Booth, Gideon Haigh, Rob Smyth, Patrick Collins, Simon Wilde, Osman Samiuddin, Tony Cozier, Benj Moorehead, Raf Nicholson and Dileep Premachandran – it includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. As always, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
"There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any it's obviously Wisden" Andrew Baker in The Daily Telegraph
@WisdenAlmanack
The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year – from the likes of Lawrence Booth, Gideon Haigh, Rob Smyth, Patrick Collins, Simon Wilde, Osman Samiuddin, Tony Cozier, Benj Moorehead, Raf Nicholson and Dileep Premachandran – it includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. As always, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.
"There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any it's obviously Wisden" Andrew Baker in The Daily Telegraph
@WisdenAlmanack
1552 pages, Hardcover
First published April 18, 2024
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December 25, 2024
Still the most comprehensive, must-read summary and analysis of the cricket year. Derided nowadays by some culture warriors as 'woke', this is actually a badge of honour that it is belatedly addressing some of the deep-rooted inequalities in the game, as well as its connection to wider social issues like the impact of the climate emergency. None of this comes at the expense of quality, evocative writing or pages and pages of lovely stats.
April 23, 2024
Utterly brilliant. Just gets better.
June 8, 2024
What a nice day, reading the Bible.
May 29, 2024
Unless something fundamentally shocking happens one year, reviewing Wisden beggars the question "Why would you do that?"
The fundamental change has to happen (before a review becomes useful) because Wisden has the same structure every year (i.e. a collection of essays on cricket, a collection of records, a review of tours to England, the English season, English, and other, tours to foreign climes etc. etc.).
This book is no different to that standard formula. If you like that, or have had Wisdens before, and liked them, or collect them, or something like that, you'll like this book. It's what you're used to. If you want to get into a certain type of cricket watching and writing, this is probably going to be a good place to start. It is Wisden after all.
The fundamental change has to happen (before a review becomes useful) because Wisden has the same structure every year (i.e. a collection of essays on cricket, a collection of records, a review of tours to England, the English season, English, and other, tours to foreign climes etc. etc.).
This book is no different to that standard formula. If you like that, or have had Wisdens before, and liked them, or collect them, or something like that, you'll like this book. It's what you're used to. If you want to get into a certain type of cricket watching and writing, this is probably going to be a good place to start. It is Wisden after all.
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