
Fred Trueman: English cricket's most enduring & best-loved character – Almanack
He represented a certain kind of Yorkshireness – chippy, forceful, sometimes humorous – that spread his fame far beyond the…
He represented a certain kind of Yorkshireness – chippy, forceful, sometimes humorous – that spread his fame far beyond the…
On his retirement, another Yorkshire and England paceman Bill Bowes paid this tribute in the 1970 Wisden Almanack
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Issue 26 of WCM is in shops from November 28
The most famous sports book in the world, the Almanack has been published every year since 1864.
Inside the 156th edition:
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 March 2013 and is available in book and e-book formats.
Every issue features an array of authors from around the world, writing beautifully and at length about the game and its myriad offshoots.