Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2022

The most famous sports book in the world.Wisden has been published every year since 1864.A perennial bestseller in the UK.This is Lawrence Booth's eleventh year as Editor of Wisden. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. @the_topspin*Standard hardback edition* The 159th edition of the most famous sports book in the world - published every year since 1864 - contains some of the world's finest sports writing, and reflects on a year when Azeem Rafiq forced the sport to examine, more painfully than ever, its attitude to racism. The launch of The Hundred gave a huge boost to the women's game while raising many questions about the men's. Then, in the last two months of the year, Australia's men won the World T20 and retained the Ashes. Writers include Lawrence Booth, Stephen Fry, Mike Atherton, Gideon Haigh, Henry Blofeld, Vic Marks, Tanya Aldred, Andy Bull, Tim de Lisle, Emma John and Scyld Berry. As usual, Wisden includes the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the famous obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records. "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 @WisdenAlmanackThe 159th edition of the most famous sports book in the world - published every year since 1864 - contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers reports and scorecards for all Tests, one-day and Twenty20 internationals, making it the cricketers' bible worldwide.Part One - Comment Part Two - The Wisden Review Part Three - English International Cricket Part Four - English Domestic Cricket Part Five - Overseas Cricket Part Six - Overseas Franchise Cricket Part Seven - Women's Cricket Part Eight - Records and Registers Part Nine - The AlmanackThe publication of Wisden is cricket's equivalent of the state opening of Parliament. It's another great edition.The pages are stacked full of information, quirks and great analysis of the game, as well as being a wonderful record.The famous yellow book has never been afraid to hold up an unflattering mirror to its subject but, even by its own standards, the 159th edition represents a searing state of the nation address.Wisden coming out once a year feels like a cricketer's Christmas. In an ever-digitised world, to have an actual book in front of us is a good thing.The Almanack is pulling cricket towards the outside world: themes of racism, sexism, intolerance and conflict, it says, are global and not local. They concern "common humanity" and how it might want to proceed, within cricket and without.It's not just the statistics and match reports - it's another towering achievement.The big yellow book. The important one. The one aliens will be reading in hundreds of years' time when we as a species have wiped ourselves out and they've come down to work out how cricket worked.