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Oborne & Heller on Cricket — 118 episodes

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World Cricket And All That Shapes It Covered By Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth

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Sovereigns, stars, stewards, scorers, statisticians … Steven Lynch on this year’s Wisden obituaries

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From teenage record breaker to players’ champion: James Harris of Glamorgan and the PCA

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The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history

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Two testaments of cricket and war

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A story made for the movies – Pakistan women’s cricket

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After a hard day in Nagpur, the great cricket writer Mike Coward gives a masterclass on Australian cricket

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An elephant never forgets India’s first Test victory in England

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How professionals save soccer – but not cricket – from public school amateurs, explains sports historian Richard Sanders

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Cricket, diplomacy and a fierce despatch from Freddie Flintoff

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England versus Pakistan – the first seventy years with historian Najum Latif

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Another thrilling spell from fast bowling legend Wes Hall

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Before D’Oliveira – the glories and the shame of England’s Tests against South Africa

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A select offering from Ed Smith

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From the captains’ table – cricket in two village communities

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The cricketing car park of Beirut

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Wendy Wimbush – fifty years of keeping but never settling scores

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Mike Coward - sixty years of great cricket writing

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At the wonder house of cricket books

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Geoff Boycott celebrates yet another century

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High performance or last performance? Campaigner Alan Higham dissects the ECB review of English cricket

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Can serious cricket survive pornography asks Simon Heffer

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Rebuilding Ukraine cricket and children’s lives – despite the ICC

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The joy of Sri Lankan cricket, expertly distilled

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Dutch cricket – and when it can be dangerous to watch

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Writing and cricket: two matching crafts for Harold Pinter

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Cricket – a prisoner of market forces?

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Charles Sale digs deep into the tunnels at Lord’s

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Non-racial sport: its slow journey with English cricket in the rear

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Writer, broadcaster, cricketer Isabelle Westbury celebrates the upward trajectory of women’s cricket

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Haringey Cricket College – a missing engine of opportunity in English cricket

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Wisden’s obituary section, a tapestry of cricket, by their master weaver Steven Lynch

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Wisden 2022, the global publishing event of the year, and its editor Lawrence Booth

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Suing the ECB? Former board member and Somerset chairman Andy Nash suggests how to resist its destruction of English cricket

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Some searing yorkers at wreckers of cricket

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A classic cricket book republished for a new generation

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Great cricket writers – and capping the Pope

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Escape from Kyiv; the Modi grip on India’s cricket ball

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Waiting for the Assault on Kyiv

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Reporting the whole world of cricket: Osman Samiuddin

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English cricket’s biggest and longest crisis: economic inequality

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Class and the myths of English cricket analysed by historian Duncan Stone

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The shocking sight of a dive in the field: Micky Stewart remembers highlights of a vanished world of cricket

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The Graces CC, the club which opens up cricket to LGBT people

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Two festive offerings from Henry Blofeld

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Tanya Aldred and the global pressure to save cricket from climate change

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Scyld Berry – England’s greatest cricket-watcher – shares highlights from over forty years of England on tour

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The great commentator Fazeer Mohammed brings up to date the stories of BlackLivesMatter and West Indian cricket

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Seventy years of revolution in English women’s cricket

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Tantrums and turmoil, racism and riots, class conflicts and colonialism – and some great cricket – in a historic tour

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The magisterial Imran Khan: the inspirational Lingard Goulding

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A great umpire raises his finger against discrimination in cricket

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England’s most incisive cricket writer, George Dobell, who never forgets the fans

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Painful testimonies of racism shake the culture of denial of apartheid in South African cricket

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Who needs the Hundred when Two Hundred Parents Start Playing Cricket?

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South African cricket – still haunted by its unacknowledged legacy of white supremacy

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Lonsdale Skinner: a cricket career blighted by racism

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“Caught Eagle bowled Eagle” and other highlights from a political cricket lover

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The hidden history of a huge success: women’s cricket in Britain

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Behind the stumps but never the times in eight decades: the multiple lives of Lingard Goulding

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Restoring the lost history of South African cricket

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Cricket’s romantic numbers

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No longer underdogs but still undervalued… New Zealand’s world-class cricketers

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Cricket’s clarion call… from the man who delivered it

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George Headley and a supporting cast of two emperors, one king and Evita Peron, in Latin America’s cricketing drama

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The County Championship – past, present and future – by its great historian Stephen Chalke

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Wisden 2021: cricket and class, race, plague and global warming

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Rich lives in a few words: the obituaries in Wisden 2021

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The park cricketer who married the Queen

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Why crowds roar for the Tigers of world cricket

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The man who discovered Eoin Morgan (and other stories)

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The great Pakistani fast bowler who nearly became a Hollywood movie star

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Wilf Wooller – the man at so many great moments of Welsh cricket

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Andy Flower: inspiring cricketer – and protestor

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The Modification of Indian cricket, expertly assessed

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Kashmir – where cricket has become a political statement

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Maurice Turnbull – and other heroes of cricket in Wales

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A great historian’s love affair with cricket

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Another fast-scoring innings by Mahela Jayawardene

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The sky is the limit for Alsama Cricket Club, where refugees from Syria get new lives

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What happened to the magic of Sri Lankan cricket?

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The United States: Paradise Regained For Cricket?

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The man who changed cricket for ever: Peter Hain

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“Absent, caught fire” and other great moments from Scotland’s cricket heritage

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“To take us to tea – and beyond”: the incomparable Henry Blofeld

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New Zealand cricket’s long journey to success

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The thrill returns of Ted Dexter at the crease

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South African cricket and the poisoned legacy of apartheid

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John Cleese Shares His Lifelong Love of Cricket

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Jill Rutter on watching cricket with Prime Ministers and others

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Talking with Pakistan Women’s Former Cricket Captain Sana Mir

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The glorious social and cultural heritage of Irish cricket with Charles Lysaght

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Cricket's growth in remarkable places: the man who knows

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Talking with Human Rights Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith

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Talking with Historian and Author, Dr Prashant Kidambi

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Talking with ECB's Managing Director of Women’s Cricket Clare Connor

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Talking with MCC's Head of Heritage and Collections Neil Robinson

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Talking with Huw Turbervill and Simon Hughes of The Cricketer

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Talking with Former First-Class Pakistani Cricketer Qamar Ahmed

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Talking with Journalist and Author Mihir Bose

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Talking with Sports Writer and Radio Broadcaster Pat Murphy

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Talking with Lord Jeffrey Archer

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Talking with Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ehsan Mani

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Talking with ICC Umpire Simon Taufel

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Talking with Cricket Historian Stephen Chalke

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Talking with West Indian Commentator Fazeer Mohammed

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Talking with Mickey Arthur, Sri Lanka’s National Coach

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Peter Gibbs on his County Career

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The First Nets & More Cricketing Novels

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Afghan Cricket with Dr Sarah Fane OBE

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The Impact of T20 with Tim Wigmore

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Cricket and Literature

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Analysis with Nathan Leamon

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British Politics and Cricket Entwined

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Cricket anyone? Anywhere?

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Unpacking more of this year’s Wisden

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Publication of Wisden 2020

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A Preview of Wisden 2020