Your Basket is currently empty Your Bookshelf is empty! Wisden Book of the Year Since 2003, Wisden’s reviewer has selected a Book of the Year, representing their personal view of the best new cricket book seen during the year. The winners have been as follows:2015 Wounded Tiger: a history of cricket in Pakistan by Peter Oborne“Oborne made more than a dozen trips to Pakistan,” wrote our reviewer Patrick Collins. “He spoke to countless people, consulted endless sources and travelled untold thousands of miles. The result is one of the most important, compelling and altogether admirable cricket books of recent years.”2014 Driving Ambition: my autobiography by Andrew Strauss”The contemporary dressing-room memoir that is uncompromised by position, yet still current enough to feel relevant, is the rarest of treasures these days,” wrote our book reviewer Jonathan Liew.2013 Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: a journey to the heart of cricket’s underworld by Ed Hawkins“This wasn’t the best-written book of the year,” said book reviewer John Crace. “
But the advantage Hawkins has over other writers who have tried to get to the bottom of match-fixing is that he understands the mathematical nuances of betting.” 2012 Fred Trueman: the Authorised Biography by Chris WatersA sympathetic but not uncritical study of a “brilliant but troubled man who seemed able to find the dark cloud surrounding every silver lining”.2011 The Cricketer’s Progress: Meadowland to Mumbai by Eric MidwinterIn this delightful synoptic history of the game, Gideon Haigh finds Midwinter to be “fond without sentimentality, thorough without pedantry, and wears his learning lightly”.2010 Harold Larwood: The authorized biography of the world’s fastest bowler by Duncan HamiltonA tender and moving account of the man used as Bodyline’s chief weapon.2009 Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of J. M. Kilburn edited by Duncan HamiltonA collection of the former Yorkshire Post correspondent’s finest writings.2008 Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns by Stephen ChalkeThe life of the former Warwickshire all-rounder
, who was a mentor to the young Ian Botham.2007 Brim Full of Passion by Wasim KhanA British Asian cricketer’s account of his struggle to establish himself in first-class cricket.2006 Ashes 2005 by Gideon HaighA collection of Haigh’s reports and writing on the 2005 Ashes series for The Guardian.2005 On and Off the Field by Ed SmithA thoughtful diary of a season for Kent and England.2004 No Coward Soul by Stephen Chalke and Derek HodgsonThe biography of the unsung Yorkshire and England medium-pacer Bob Appleyard.2003 Bodyline Autopsy by David FrithThe complete story of the controversial 1932-33 Ashes series.Any new cricket book received by Wisden will be listed in the next edition of the Almanack, and considered for review. It will also be treated as a submission for Wisden Book of the Year.Please send review copies to:The EditorWisden Cricketers' Almanack13 Old AylesfieldFroyle RoadAlton, Hampshire GU34 4BY Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016 165 x 105 mm Free UK delivery on orders £25 or over
Tell others about this book About Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016 *Soft-cover edition*The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Home to some of the finest sports writing of the year – from the likes of Lawrence Booth, Gideon Haigh, Rob Smyth, Patrick Collins, Simon Wilde, Osman Samiuddin, Tony Cozier, Benj Moorehead, Raf Nicholson and Dileep Premachandran – it includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. As always, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records.A perennial bestseller in the UK, yet again this year's edition – the 153rd, Wisden 2016 – is truly a “must-have” for every cricket fan."There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it's obviously Wisden" Andrew Baker in the Daily Telegraph@WisdenAlmanack
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