Wisden Cricket Monthly | June 2021
In the latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly, out on May 20, we speak to 10 of England’s finest run-makers about the innings when it all just clicked into place.
Marking the 30-year anniversary of Graham Gooch’s masterful 154* against West Indies at Headingley, an innings widely regarded to be one of the greatest in Test history, English batting royalty – including David Gower, Charlotte Edwards, Mike Atherton, Kevin Pietersen, and Gooch himself – talk us through their magnum opus and the backstory behind it.
Elsewhere we have exclusive interviews with Chris Woakes, Carlos Brathwaite, Sophie Ecclestone and Shane Bond, while Dennis Amiss picks Warwickshire’s Greatest XI.
Ten years on from Kevin O’Brien’s whirlwind World Cup century against England, Calum Trenaman considers the impact that innings had – and continues to have – on Irish cricket, and the magazine is full to bursting with county cricket, including news and interviews from all 18 first-class clubs in our new ‘County Files’ section.
Andrew Miller writes that football is the new cricket after detecting some familiar hallmarks in the European Super League proposal, Elizabeth Ammon says the Blast has a golden opportunity to reassert its value, Isabelle Westbury voices her concerns for the future of independent journalism, and Andy Zaltzman explains the significance of the number 36 in his mind-bending column.
We also hear from Mason Crane on the secrets of leg-spin, and Sam Stow imagines a world in which Misbah leads his country to glory at the inaugural World T20, paving the way for Pakistan’s global dominance.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Wisden Cricket Monthly June 2021.