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 50 of the Nightwatchman

Jonathan Liew wants more trumpeting of the big 5-0

Scott Oliver is looking for new ways to write

Dan Forman on an intra-club match with a difference

James Thellusson thinks cricket poetry needs to buck up its ideas

Harry Pearson recalls a very specific north-south divide

Andrew Cracknell holidayed in Barbados but his mind was not on cricket

The Wisden 2024 Photograph of the Year

Rod Lyall outlines the depressing state of play within the ICC

Anthony Lawrence on his father and cricket

Garfield Robinson does a deep dive in to the fast men

Rudradeep Bhattacharjee has done his research on umpires’ white coats

Richard Edwards loves a genuine tail-ender

Oliver Price charts the life of John Masterman, cricketer and spy

Jackie Litherland on a watery World Cup moment

John Stone celebrates Derbyshire’s 1936 Championship win

Mick Pope tells the tale of Fred Bakewell, and what might have been

Roy Peachey obsesses over Zak Crawley

Cris Andrews on the men’s World Cup, coincidentally also reaching 50