The one-armed man did it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Hard to overstate how powerful and unequivocally spot on this interview is.

In the new WCM, @philwisden.bsky.social outlines why Harry Brook was the only serious candidate to be England's white-ball captain Buy now ⬇️ Print: www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/wisden-c... Digital: shorturl.at/TP8UT

Yesterday I spoke to a trans woman called Suzi James, a cricketer of 20 years, the game wrenched away from her overnight. One of the most affecting interviews I’ve done. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

I really love cricket bats and batmaking (not that it would/could do it myself). This is great from @philwisden.bsky.social on Salix. One of the great batmakers going. Kember is an artist with the willow. www.wisden.com/cricket-feat...

Salix, a legendary name in bat making, is branching out into newer markets, revitalised by fresh ideas, an evolving marketplace and wedding bells in the workshop. Long-time fan @philwisden.bsky.social headed to Kent to see where the magic happens www.wisden.com/cricket-feat...

Unfit for play apparently

This is a wonderful story from Jonathan Hall about Julian Milichamp (yes that Hall) Please read it and share it. #cricket 🏏 dudleyboy.substack.com/p/the-best-b...

This is high art

Unnecessarily good

Edwards is viewed as a one-off. But it’s been put to me that if ECB doesn’t follow their pledge for open recruitment processes, why should Counties when they look to recruit coaches. That’s the trickle down effect. See pt 11 re recruitment all ECB roles: www.ecb.co.uk/news/2463053

what i'm basically saying here is that you can't really understand tottenham's style of football without a basic understanding of the greek military coup of 1967, put that on your touchscreen jamie carragher www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Congratulations to Brian Lara and @philwisden.bsky.social for being shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards (@sportsbookawards.bsky.social) Cricket Book of the Year. #CTSBA25 #ReadingForSport

@philwisden.bsky.social love you got the date of the waqar game wrong. I do same with my first game. Surrey vs Lancs. Sylvester destroyed a good lancs side in the morning as me and my dad ate ham and pickle sandwiches and pork pie. i.imgci.com/link_to_data...

Podcast of the year!

💚 🏏 Wisden's gone GREEN! 🏏💚 😯😍 So amazing that Wisden have decided to switch the iconic yellow of the almanack to green for this special climate action edition!!! 🌍💚 Can't wait to get our hands on it 🙌

An uncertain future for beautiful New Road - CEO Ashley Giles rules out flood barriers, while admitting that living with climate change-induced flooding is "increasingly unmanagemable." The club look for an "additional" venue as climate change reality starts to bite.

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

Conversation with nephew, 4 Me: it’s your birthday soon Alf, right? Him: yeah I’m old Me: do you know how old I am? Him: ten thousand? Me: correct Pause Him: are you really ten thousand? Me: no, I’m 45 Him: that’s mad

It can be very easy to get lost in statistics over the proposed #benefitscuts. No doubt at least 2/3 of the press will now be running opinion pieces about why our “bloated benefits bill” needs cutting and why “workshy” sick people need to be “encouraged” back to work. 🧵 #chronicillness #disability

Jeffers on airplanes etc. Nice is this.

Feeling burnt-out after enduring a difficult year both in and outside of work, I took the option of redundancy and ended up covering England's winter Test series in New Zealand for wisden online. Here's the story of how it happened, why I needed it so badly, and how I got along...

This, from the greatest scribe of all, about a baseball hitter you may have heard of (I hadn’t) is the best sportswriting you’ll ever read www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

🏏🌍💚 Cricket lovers, players and fans the world over are standing up for climate action and sustainability 💪 Are you in? Sign The Next Test Pledge 👇🏼

We are looking to put together a poster depicting the '50 Greatest Goals' of all time and we need your help! Any and all goals from history are welcome. The more goals the merrier. Please send your suggestions to [email protected]

A bit on signature shots, Shubman Gill’s shot from the gods, and whether anyone can have the lot www.wisden.com/series/icc-c...

Great scheme this

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Daft week for English cricket but there’s always WCM. Out this week, the 100 100s that changed the game, all 24,000 words of it Print: thenightwatchman.net/buy/wisden-c... Digital: shorturl.at/mGrm8

"I was going to make a noose, but instead I made a basket." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...

Podding with @philwisden.bsky.social and Kate Mason today, any questions?!

Roll up roll up

🚨 NEW SHOW 🚨 (Feat. The Rebuttal) 🎙️ Mark B 🎙️ @melindafarrell.bsky.social 🎙️ @yaswisden.bsky.social 🎙️ Will Smeed 🟢 bit.ly/WCWPSpotify 🍎 bit.ly/WCWPApplePods

I did a Q & A about what to expect in Trump Term Two on my newsletter. Read the questions and my answers here! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

Extract from the new one up on @theguardian.com today, part II of our ‘definitively subjective’ list of great away series wins www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

This, out today, has a child genius on its cover, and contained within it, a mass of soaring writing, nerdishness, jokes and soul. www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/wisden-c...

I have signed this letter to the cricket board of England & Wales to ask for them to reconsider going ahead with a cricket match against a country that exercises gender apartheid #afghanistan

Xmas pod with Kate Mason and @philwisden.bsky.social, enjoy! 🟢 bit.ly/WCWPSpotify 🍎 bit.ly/WCWPApplePods 👀 bit.ly/WCWPYouTube2312

The calamari files

"There was something so familiar and comforting about it. Finding a thing you know in a place that you don’t." 🏏 🇨🇳 @adamhopkins23.bsky.social for Wisden Cricket Monthly via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/d...

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I love this bit @philwisden.bsky.social Even Lara’s 501 has more than a hint of village about it 🤣🏏😊

Picked this up for my bird-obsessed mate’s birthday @levparikian.bsky.social

Nothing between 91 and now. And previous to Gooch & Smith, we reckon it's May & Cowdrey - July 1, 1958