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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. [1]

78 relations: A & C Black, Alec Waugh, Andrew Strauss, Apostrophe, Australian cricket team in England in 1948, Barry Norman, Benny Green (saxophonist), Bloomsbury Publishing, Bodyline, Charles Pardon, Club cricket, Cricket, Cricket Reporting Agency, David Frith, Duckworth–Lewis method, Duncan Hamilton (journalist), Ed Smith (cricketer), England cricket team, English Civil War, Epsom Oaks, Eric Midwinter, Eric Ravilious, ESPNcricinfo, First-class cricket, Frank Keating (journalist), Fred Lillywhite, Gideon Haigh, Hubert Preston, International cricket, J. L. Carr, John Arlott, John Crace (writer), John Paul Getty Jr., John Wisden, John Woodcock (cricket writer), Jonny Bairstow, Kamila Shamsie, Large-print, Lawrence Booth (cricket writer), Laws of Cricket, Leslie Thomas, London Mercury, Marcus Berkmann, Matthew Engel, Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket, NDTV, Neville Cardus, Norman Preston, Peter Oborne, Powerplay (cricket), ..., Press Association, Quoits, Ramachandra Guha, Robert Harling (typographer), Robert Maxwell, Robert Winder, Robin Martin-Jenkins, Scyld Berry, Sebastian Faulks, Shilling, Simon Jones (cricketer), Stephen Chalke, Stephen Moss, Sydney Pardon, The Ashes, The Guide to Cricketers, Tim de Lisle, Village cricket, W. G. Grace, Wasim Khan, West Indies cricket team, Wisden 100, Wisden Asia Cricket, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia, Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World, Wisden Trophy, Woodcut. Expand index (28 more) »

A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Alec Waugh

Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher.

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Andrew Strauss

Andrew John Strauss (born 2 March 1977) is a former English cricketer who played all formats of the game internationally, captaining England in all three.

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Apostrophe

The apostrophe ( ' or) character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.

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Australian cricket team in England in 1948

The Australian cricket team in England in 1948 was captained by Don Bradman, who was making his fourth and final tour of England.

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Barry Norman

Barry Leslie Norman, CBE (21 August 1933 – 30 June 2017) was a British film critic, journalist and television presenter.

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Benny Green (saxophonist)

Benny Green (born Bernard Green; 9 December 1927, Leeds, Yorkshire – 22 June 1998) was a British jazz saxophonist who was also known for his radio shows and books.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Bodyline

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

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Charles Pardon

Charles Frederick Pardon (28 March 1850 - 18 April 1890) was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack between 1887 and 1890.

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Club cricket

Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cricket Reporting Agency

The Cricket Reporting Agency (CRA) was founded by Charles Pardon and George Kelly King in 1880.

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David Frith

David Edward John Frith (born 16 March 1937) is a cricket writer and historian.

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Duckworth–Lewis method

The Duckworth–Lewis (D/L) method is a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a limited overs cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstances.

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Duncan Hamilton (journalist)

Duncan Hamilton (born December 1958) is a British author and newspaper journalist and two-time winner of the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

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Ed Smith (cricketer)

Edward Thomas Smith (born 19 July 1977) is an English author and journalist, former professional cricketer, and cricket commentator.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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Epsom Oaks

| The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies.

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Eric Midwinter

Eric Midwinter OBE MA DPhil (born February 1932) is an English author, broadcaster and academic.

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Eric Ravilious

Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Frank Keating (journalist)

Francis Vincent "Frank" Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in The Guardian newspaper.

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Fred Lillywhite

Frederick Lillywhite (7 July 1829 – 15 September 1866) was a sports outfitter and cricketing entrepreneur, who organised the first overseas cricket tour by an English team and published a number of reference works about cricket.

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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is an English-born Australian journalist who writes about sport (especially cricket) and business.

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Hubert Preston

Hubert Preston (16 December 1868 – 6 August 1960) was a journalist and writer who was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for eight years from the 1944 edition to the 1951 edition.

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International cricket

International cricket matches are played between teams representing their nations, normally organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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J. L. Carr

Joseph Lloyd Carr (20 May 1912 – 26 February 1994), who called himself "Jim" or even "James", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric.

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John Arlott

Leslie Thomas John Arlott, OBE (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.

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John Crace (writer)

John Crace is a British journalist and critic.

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John Paul Getty Jr.

Sir John Paul Getty, (born Eugene Paul Getty; 7 September 1932 – 17 April 2003), was a British philanthropist and book collector.

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John Wisden

John Wisden (5 September 1826 – 5 April 1884) was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex.

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John Woodcock (cricket writer)

John Charles Woodcock OBE (born 7 August 1926) is an English cricket writer and journalist.

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Jonny Bairstow

Jonathan Marc Bairstow (born 26 September 1989) is an English cricketer, who plays first-class cricket for Yorkshire and England.

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie (born 13 August 1973) is a British Pakistani novelist.

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Large-print

Large-print (also large-type or large-font) refers to the formatting of a book or other text document in which the typeface (or font), and sometimes the medium, are considerably larger than usual, to accommodate people who have poor vision.

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Lawrence Booth (cricket writer)

Lawrence Booth (born 2 April 1975) is an author and a cricket writer for the Daily Mail, cricket correspondent of the Mail on Sunday, and editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack - the youngest for 72 years when he was appointed in 2011.

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Laws of Cricket

The Laws of Cricket is a code which specifies the rules of the game of cricket worldwide.

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Leslie Thomas

Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers.

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London Mercury

The London Mercury was the name of several periodicals published in London from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

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Marcus Berkmann

Marcus Berkmann (born 14 July 1960) is a journalist and author.

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Matthew Engel

Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951 in Northampton) is a British writer, journalist and editor.

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Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket

The Minor Counties are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that are not afforded first-class status.

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NDTV

New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) is an Indian television media company founded in 1988 by Radhika Roy, a journalist.

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Neville Cardus

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE (3 April 188828 February 1975) was an English writer and critic.

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Norman Preston

Norman Preston, MBE (18 March 1903–6 March 1980) was an English cricket journalist.

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Peter Oborne

Peter Alan Oborne (born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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Powerplay (cricket)

A powerplay is the name for the fielding restrictions in limited-overs and Twenty20 cricket.

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Press Association

The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Quoits

Quoits (koits, kwoits, kwaits) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin).

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history.

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Robert Harling (typographer)

Robert Henry Harling (London 27 March 1910 – 1 July 2008 Godstone, Surrey) was a British typographer, designer, journalist and novelist who lived to the age of 98.

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Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991), born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, was a British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP).

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Robert Winder

Robert Winder, formerly literary editor of The Independent for five years and Deputy Editor of Granta magazine during the late 1990s, is the author of Hell for Leather, a book about modern cricket, a book about British immigration, and also two novels ("Biographical Notes" 73) as well as many articles and book reviews in British periodicals.

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Robin Martin-Jenkins

Robin Simon Christopher Martin-Jenkins (born 28 October 1975) is an English former cricketer who played for Sussex County Cricket Club and British Universities.

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Scyld Berry

Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry (pronounced "Shild", born 28 April 1954) is cricket correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.

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Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

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Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.

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Simon Jones (cricketer)

Simon Philip Jones (born 25 December 1978) is a Welsh former cricketer, who played internationally for England.

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Stephen Chalke

Stephen Chalke (born 1948 in Salisbury, Wiltshire) is an English author and publisher.

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Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss is a British natural historian, birder, author and television producer.

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Sydney Pardon

Sydney Herbert Pardon (23 September 1855 – 20 November 1925) was a sports journalist who was the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 35 editions, from 1891 until his death.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

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The Guide to Cricketers

The Guide to Cricketers was a cricket annual edited by Fred Lillywhite between 1849 and his death in 1866.

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Tim de Lisle

Timothy John March Phillipps de Lisle (born 25 June 1962) is a British writer and editor who is a feature writer for The Guardian, focusing on cricket and rock music.

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Village cricket

Village cricket is a term, sometimes pejorative, given to the playing of cricket in rural villages in England and Wales.

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W. G. Grace

William Gilbert "W.

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Wasim Khan

Wasim Gulzar Khan MBE (born 26 February 1971) became the first Pakistani/Asian origin British to play professional cricket in England.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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Wisden 100

The Wisden 100 is a set of lists created by Wisden which attempted to objectively rate the 100 best individual innings performances in Test and One Day International cricket in each of the disciplines of batting and bowling.

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Wisden Asia Cricket

Wisden Asia Cricket was a monthly English language cricket magazine produced by the British based cricket publishing company Wisden.

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia (also known as Wisden Australia) was a cricket annual and reference book, the Australian version of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, generally known as Wisden.

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Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World

The Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World is an annual cricket award selected by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

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Wisden Trophy

The Wisden Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Test cricket series played between England and the West Indies.

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Woodcut

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack

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