Wisden imprint: 43 books
The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2014
The Definitive Player-by-Player Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
With Tests and One Day Internationals now joined by Twenty20 games, there is more international cricket than ever before. These games captivate a television audience of tens of millions throughout the year and throughout the world. But how do you keep track of all the players?
The Wisden Guide...
Wisden on India
An anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Throughout its long and distinguished history, Wisden has reported on Indian cricket around the world and commented on its highs and lows. One of the first references to a touring Indian cricket side was in 1889: 'Perhaps the most notable feature of the tour was the wonderfully successful bowing of...
The Shorter Wisden 2015
The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2014 season.
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Wisden has grown through the years to embrace innovation and maintain its status as the most revered and cherished brand in cricket. The 'Bible of Cricket', Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Wisden's Cricketers of the Year Awards, one of the oldest honours in the...
The Shorter Wisden 2011
Selected writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from May 2010 up to and including their latest Ashes triumph.
Elk Stopped Play
And Other Tales from Wisden's 'Cricket Round the World'
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
There are few parts of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack that embody the magic and appeal of the game more than Cricket Round the World. Elk Stopped Play is a carefully-chosen selection of stories from twenty years of one of Wisden'smost-loved sections. Combining the highlights of two decades of the Almanack's...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, first published in 1979, is well established as an invaluable and unique source of reference essential to any cricket library. This new volume includes full coverage of every Test match from late 2009 to the end of the 2014 season in England. Each Test match features...
Wisden on the Ashes
The Authoritative Story of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
*Updated edition to include the 2013, 2013-14 and 2015 Ashes series*
Wisden on the Ashes: The authoritative story of cricket's greatest rivalry is a detailed chronological journey through the history of this famous English-Australian contest. With Test reports, scorecards, "Great bowlers...
by Jon Surtees
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Oval in Kennington, south London – with its instantly recognisable gasholders – is one of sport's most iconic and popular venues. It has played host to an array of blue-ribbon sporting events over the years, including the FA Cup final and rugby's first varsity match. But it is as an iconic...
CrickiLeaks
The Secret Ashes Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Cricket's greatest legends. Sport's fiercest
rivalry. Wisden's fakest diaries.
CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players' balcony and imagines 40
cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated book
covers they might have inspired.
Featuring spoof journal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
My Favourite Cricketer features a selection of the finest writing taken from The Wisden Cricketer magazine. Top-quality sports writers and celebrated cricket fans fondly recall their most admired player past or present, and explain their choice of cricketing hero.
The player selection ranges...
Edging Towards Darkness
The story of the last timeless Test
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Cricket matches didn't always top out at five days, regardless of a result or not – they used to be 'timeless', with play continuing until one team won, no matter how many days that took.
The last of these – which took place in Durban in 1939, in a series pitched against the backdrop of...
by Patrick Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
There was once a time, not so long ago, where our sporting heroes were treated with veneration. Players were players and their watchers were passive. Heroes lived on pedestals - they weren't public property.
This book explores the many ways this dynamic has changed over the years. From the...
Sit Down and Cheer
A History of Sport on TV
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs.
But they got...