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TWC IS looking to capture the evocative, the emotional and the imaginative side of the game with a new photographic contest.
Send in your photographs that fulfil TWC’s chosen cricketing theme – interpreted however you wish – and we’ll publish the best four each month.
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Want to be part of a record attempt? Then read on.
Every so often TWC receives a very worthwhile press release – so this morning our blog hands over to Danielle Spriggs of the ‘Hit for 60′ initiative.
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The Wisden Cricketer has a new book out this week: an anthology of our ‘My Favourite Cricketer’ features, published by A&C Black. Here is my foreword to the book…
Hero worship takes many forms. Some love larger than life, as Bonnie Tyler sang, others prefer “honest and modest”, as Peter Roebuck says of Harold Larwood. Some are wowed by raw talent or seduced by beauty and flair. There are the imitators and the obsessives, the autograph hunters and the wannabes, finding heroism or idolatry in the underdog or the lame duck.
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If the cricket book world could be said to have an awards season, it has just closed with the announcement on Monday of the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year.
In March a panel representing the Cricket Writers’ Club judged the cricket book of the year as part of the British Sports Book of the Year awards.
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Unsure about your “corridor of uncertainty”? Worried that your “good areas” might not be up to snuff? Confused about exactly when you ought to “put your hand up”? Fret not: over the next 25 weeks, the Wisden Cricketer Online will bring you the Alternative Cricket Dictionary, edited by Alan Tyers, and we would very much like your contributions and suggestions. Last week we had ‘B’. Below is ‘C’. Please send your definitions to cricdic@gmail.com, or put them on twitter #cricdic or the comments below, and we will publish them.
Caddick, Andy England(ish) seamer whose height and bounce made him occasionally very difficult to handle, as did his personality.
Cameo Descriptive of an innings played by, e.g., Matt Prior: brilliant when taking England from 400-6 to 500-7; less useful when advancing score from 80-6 to 93 all out.
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Unsure about your “corridor of uncertainty”? Worried that your “good areas” might not be up to snuff? Confused about exactly when you ought to “put your hand up”? Fret not: over the next 25 weeks, the Wisden Cricketer Online will bring you the Alternative Cricket Dictionary, edited by Alan Tyers, and we would very much like your contributions and suggestions. Being as we are of a traditional mien, last week we started with ‘A’. Below is ‘B’. Please send your definitions to cricdic@gmail.com, or put them on twitter #cricdic or the comments below, and we will publish them.
Bacher, Adam South African batsman who had no influential family members whatsoever, making his imposing 19-Test career – average 26 – all the more impressive.
Bailey, Trevor (pop: The Boil) Long-term TMS fixture about whom, no matter how dull his commentary might be, one could always comfort oneself with the thought that at least he wasn’t batting.
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Unsure about your “corridor of uncertainty”? Worried that your “good areas” might not be up to snuff? Confused about exactly when you ought to “put your hand up”? Fret not: over the next 26 weeks, the Wisden Cricketer Online will bring you the Alternative Cricket Dictionary, edited by Alan Tyers, and we would very much like your contributions and suggestions. Being as we are of a traditional mien, we start below with ‘A’. So send your definitions to cricdic@gmail.com, or put them on twitter #cricdic, and we will publish them.
Abu Dhabi Spiritual home of English cricket.
Ackerman, HD Leicestershire lad who, at 32, finally achieved his life-long dream of playing for the county after an upsetting 32-year interlude in which he was mistakenly identified as a South African.
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After an Ashes year perhaps it shouldn’t have been a great surprise but cricket and cricket writing won big last night at the British Sports Journalism Awards. Of the 25 awards on offer, nine were won by cricket writers, broadcasters and photographers.
The big winner was Mike Atherton, who was named Columnist of the Year and also the ultimate accolade of Sports Writer of the Year. He was also highly commended in the Specialist Correspondent category which he won last year.
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Have you seen The Invention of Lying? It’s a Ricky Gervais film about a society where people can’t lie to each other: “What are you doing?” / “I was gonna rob your house.” / “I don’t like that idea. Not a fan of that at all”. It’s not really very good, but it seems that England’s chief selector Geoff Miller has given it a good watch and picked up some tips.
On announcing England’s provisional 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 yesterday, Miller was asked why Alastair Cook had been omitted. After all, he’s the current England captain and had a good tournament with Essex last season.
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Newsletter. Issue No.82.
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“I think if you think so much, you simply cannot bat,” says Virender Sehwag. “You never know when you get out. Try to score as much possible before that.”
So embrace risk-taking then?
“In my case, it would become risky if I try to become defensive, since my technique is not that good.”
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