The 'golden age' of cricket writing

Andy Bull, writing in the Guardian, reasons why the present age may perhaps be cricket's 'golden age' with regards to writings on the game. Reporting, however, isn't perhaps of the same standard, he believes.

Fans once relied on what they could find in the back pages of the papers or the odd monthly-magazine. Now they are spoiled for choice. Cricinfo, under the enlightened stewardship of Sambit Bal, have just launched The Cordon, "a collection of cricket writing from outside the mainstream media". Then there is Wisden Extra, the lavish and entirely free, online magazine run by Lawrence Booth, and Wisden India, whose website launched last year, with their own Almanack following soon after. Add to that the burgeoning number of individual blogs, from Jarrod Kimber's Cricket With Balls to Jon Hotten's The Old Batsman.