Cricket writing

The zen of browsing <i>Wisden</i>

A cornucopia of unbelievable cricket facts hidden in plain sight, that's what is just a click away with the online archives of the Wisden Almanack

16-Jan-2015•Zeeshan Mahmud

The parts of cricket that language forgot

There are feelings and situations in cricket that all of us are familiar with but can't describe succinctly

26-Aug-2014•Jon Hotten

Harsha Bhogle, the storyteller

Harsha Bhogle discusses the early influences that shaped his commentary, censorship, unsavoury trysts on twitter and physical attributes in television presenting with the Hindu's Arun Venugopal

27-May-2014

How much of a sportsman's story do you need to know?

Journalists may crave the minutest details, but fans are happy to leave some things to the imagination

24-Mar-2014•Jonathan Wilson

In praise of Margaret Hughes

The first woman to write to a high standard on the game was treated a bit like a circus freak when she appeared on the scene

30-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

Qamar Ahmed's special quadruple

Freelance cricket writer and commentator Qamar Ahmed completes his 400th Test as a reporter, at which point he has been to 19% of all Tests every played

16-Jan-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando

What I read in 2013

There's a surge for immediacy in the modern media but sports books, especially cricket ones, help you slow down

03-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

When an editor ate his words

India's World Cup victory in 1983 prompted some unforgettable banter between their manager and a magazine editor

26-Dec-2013•Samir Chopra

The left-hander's cover drive

Aka the cricket stroke that can move medical professionals to poetry

12-Oct-2013•Michael Jeh

What do they know of cliches...

Cricket clichés find their most obvious and oft-parodied home in commentary boxes but we're all guilty of them from time to time

27-Sep-2013•Russell Jackson

Using cricket to tell India's story

James Astill, author of the Great Indian Tamasha, speaks to the Wall Street Journal about the impact of cricket in India

19-Sep-2013

Adaptation of ambition

As yet another summer of cricket comes to a close, the Old Batsman muses how cricket's complexities allow a different face to each age of the player

16-Sep-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Why does cricket not lend itself to the novel?

It could be because literary description of sport is almost impossible because of our over-familiarity with the language of reporting

09-Sep-2013•Jonathan Wilson

The best cricket periodical ever

From 1978 to 1983, the World Cricket Digest, published out of Sydney, offered fans of cricket and cricket writing an invaluable service

25-Jul-2013•Samir Chopra

A portent of a possibly brutish Ashes

If the first day's play is any indication, this Ashes could be short and brutal for batsmen

11-Jul-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

The grand online cricket library

We're privileged to be living at a time when there is such a wealth of cricket writing online

02-Jul-2013•Samir Chopra

CMJ and a lesson in reporting on cricket

His book on England's victorious tour of Australia in 1986-87 entertained a ten-year-old and taught him the value of writing on just the sport

24-Jun-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Chronicles of the ghost-writer

In a piece in Man's World magazine, Sharda Ugra shares her experience of being a ghost-writer on two cricket biographies - John Wright's Indian Summers and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.

18-Jun-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

When football replaced cricket on the back pages

You can almost pinpoint the date when the switch happened in England

11-May-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Notes from editors, past and present

In Wisden India, six editors of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack share their thoughts on what it means to be a Wisden editor.

03-May-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

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