Cricket’s past is steeped in a tradition of great writing and Wisden is making sure its future will be too. The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles which debuted in 2013.

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Contents list:

• Matt Thacker introduces issue 47 of the Nightwatchman
• Mark Rice-Oxley comes back to cricket after a quarter of a century
• Stephen Brenkley sets the scene for the Ashes Test series of 1926
• Garfield Robinson wonders about the rise of the maximum
• Robert Selby muses about the bowling-machine batter
• Richard Clarke says friendship is a difficult topic for middle-aged men
• Photo special – remembering Graham Thorpe
• Daniel Gallan laments an era that now seems long ago
• Steve Menary lifts the lid on unregulated betting companies
• John Drew finds that the play’s the thing
• Simon Lister on the incredible Brisbane tie
• Qaiser Mohammad Ali recalls the making of two world records
• Cris Andrews on a summer when the rain became the star
• Peter Mason describes how Clyde Walcott turned a nation’s cricket around
• Brian Lara breaks the world record for the first time
• Tom Law says there has been a shameless abdication of responsibility
• James Butler goes looking for boundaries and borders
• Richard Edwards remembers the emergence of Sri Lanka as a cricketing nation
• Benjamin Golby wonders how England tourists will fare in Pakistan
• Paul Edwards lauds a true man of cricket

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