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 48 of the Nightwatchman
• Patrick Hargreaves on how oil and cricket are big news in Guyana
• David Tossell goes back to the start of a brutal tour
• Roger Domeneghetti charts the rise and fall of a cricket revolution
• James Thellusson is ousted
• Huw Richards laments the passing of cricket at St Helen’s
• Kris Pathirana reflects on Graham Thorpe’s death
• S.J. Litherland marks the passing of another season
• David Frith had dual heroes in Len and Ray
• Stephen Chalke on the one and only Brian Close
• Trevor Auger talks to Doug Cowie, who started out all at sea
• Matt Appleby gets up on stage
• Photo special on England’s leading run scorers
• Cris Andrews looks back on England’s Dad’s Army
• Hugh Tatham is in reflective mood
• Luke Alfred bundles Tony Greig into the back of a car
• Steve Menary examines the threat of T10 tournaments
• John Stone remembers the quicks from the pits
• Tawhid Qureshi on how political turmoil affected his family
• Christopher Sandford looks back to the MCC tour of 1954–55

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