The Shorter Wisden 2015
The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2015
1st Edition
Published on 9. April 2015
1584 pages
978-1-4729-1521-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2014 season.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-1521-4 (9781472915214)
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Person
This is Lawrence Booth's fourth year as Editor of Wisden. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically-acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game.
Content
- The Shorter Wisden 2015
- Title page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One - Comment
- Wisden Honours
- Notes by the Editor
- The Leading Cricketer in the World, 2014
- Five Cricketers of the Year
- Moeen Ali
- Gary Ballance
- Adam Lyth
- Angelo Mathews
- Jeetan Patel
- W. G. Grace, 1848-1915
- Victor Trumper, 1877-1915
- Life as an opening batsman
- The menace of the last-wicket stand
- Kevin Pietersen
- A celebration of nicknames
- How the ACSU really works
- Mahela Jayawardene
- Cricket games
- 125 years of the County Championship
- Tea with Murali
- The science of throwing
- Weird and wonderful matches
- Resitting the Tebbit test
- The press and players
- Phillip Hughes, 1988-2014
- Everyone's little brother
- We must dig in and get through to tea
- Dinks in the fence
- Wisden's writing competition winner, 2014
- Part Two - The Wisden Review
- Cricket books in 2014
- Cricket in the media, 2014
- Cricket and blogs, 2014
- Cricket and Twitter, 2014
- Cricket and the Laws, 2014
- Retirements in 2014
- Review
- Graeme Smith: Man of granite
- Cricketana in 2014
- Cricket people
- Cricket in the courts, 2014
- Chronicle of 2014
- One hundred and fifty years ago
- One hundred years ago
- Fifty years ago
- Obituaries
- Supplementary obituaries
- A.E.J. Collins obituary - 100 years on
- Part Three - English International Cricket
- The England team in 2014
- England players
- West Indies v England, 2013-14
- England v Sri Lanka, 2014
- Review
- Mankading - a brief history
- First Test
- Second Test
- England v India, 2014
- Review
- M.S. Dhoni faces the media
- First Test
- Second Test
- Third Test
- Fourth Test
- Fifth Test
- Sri Lanka v England, 2014-15
- Part Four - English Domestic Cricket
- LV= County Championship, 2014
- NatWest T20 Blast, 2014
- Royal London One-Day Cup, 2014
- The counties in 2014
- Derbyshire
- Durham
- Essex
- Glamorgan
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Middlesex
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Somerset
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
- County outgrounds
- European cricket in 2014
- Ireland
- Scotland
- The Netherlands
- Canterbury v Rome
- Part Five - Overseas Cricket
- World cricket in 2014
- World Twenty20, 2013-14
- Australia in 2014
- Bangladesh in 2014
- India in 2014
- New Zealand in 2014
- Pakistan in 2014
- South Africa in 2014
- Sri Lanka in 2014
- West Indies in 2014
- Zimbabwe in 2014
- Afghanistan in 2014
- Hong Kong in 2014
- Nepal in 2014
- Papua New Guinea in 2014
- United Arab Emirates in 2014
- Cricket Round the World in 2014
- Cricket on Mt Kilimanjaro
- Part Six - Women's Cricket
- World cricket in 2014
- The Leading Cricketer in the World, 2014
- World Twenty20, 2013-14
- Australia v England, 2013-14
- English cricket in 2014
- eCopyright
