A SERIES UNLIKE ANY OTHER

All cricketers are equal, but some are more equal than others

EDITOR’S NOTE

THE ASHES

Greg Chappell on...

CHAPPELL

Greg was a beautiful batsman to watch. He

KEY BATTLES

WHERE THE ASHES WILL BE WON AND LOST

HOW TO WIN IN AUSTRALIA

CricViz analyst Ben Jones examines the accepted truths of how teams can overcome Australia in their own backyard and tries to separate fact from fiction

CAMERON GREEN

THE NEXT BIG THING

HASEEB HAMEED MAD INTRICACIES

Five bruising years from his celebrated Test debut in India, Haseeb Hameed is back. He talks to Phil Walker about not losing faith, staying side-on, and refusing to be labelled

“I know I’m good enough to score runs in international cricket – and big runs”

DAN LAWRENCE

James Pattinson: the fragile phenomenon who could have been a Test great

The Australian quick should have been lining up against England in the Ashes, instead he announced his retirement from international cricket, aged 31, after a succession of debilitating injuries. Adam Collins wonders what might have been, and says Australia will miss him this winter

RE:VIEW

SERIES PREVIEW ASHES 2021/22

COCK-UPS, MISHAPS AND SHOCKERS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN AUSTRALIA

“OK SON, YOU’RE IN”

An XI of ‘interesting’ selections…

The Iconography of the Ashes

Part 1: 1888-1920

The Iconography of the Ashes

Part 2: 1920-1970

The Iconography of the Ashes

Part 3: 1970-2021

Bowling wheels with Pat Cummins

LEARN FROM THE PROS

Pace bowling secrets with Mark Wood

LEARN FROM THE PROS

STEVE SMITH

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

THE SUMMER OF SHANE

SHANE WARNE ARRIVED IN ENGLAND AHEAD OF THE 1993 ASHES WITHOUT MUCH RECORD OR REPUTATION. BY THE END OF THE SERIES, HE HAD BECOME THE GAME’S NEW ICON, LEAVING ENGLISH BATTERS IN COLD SWEATS WITH HIS UNFATHOMABLE BOX OF TRICKS. SUDDENLY, EVERY YOUNG CRICKETER WANTED TO BE A LEG-SPINNER. ROB SMYTH RETRACES THAT LANDMARK SUMMER, SPEAKING TO THOSE WHO HAD THE TASK OF FACING HIM

WARNE’S ASHES IN NUMBERS

MATCH-BY-MATCH FIGURES Old Trafford 4-51 & 4-86 Lord’s

Chaos Theory

England v Australia First Test, Old Trafford, 1993

2010/11 The Definitive Story

England have won six Test matches in Australia in the past 34 years. Three of those – each by an innings – came in the space of six extraordinary, dreamlike weeks in 2010/11. Jo Harman speaks to a selection of people who were right in the thick of it in a comprehensive account of England’s greatest overseas series win of the modern era

3-32 | Jofra Archer

England v Australia, Second Test, Lord’s, 2019

My Favourite Innings

After months of toil and soul-searching, Mark Butcher fought his way back from the brink to play one of the great Ashes innings. His father, who helped get him there, recalls the day at Leeds when it all came together

“The problem I had, when someone drops the simplest of catches, you all go and pat him on the back; well, I’d go and kick him up the arse”

PART 1: CAPTAINCY AND FALLOUT

“He had a hate-hate relationship with the MCC” Bob Willis

PART 2: THE END OF THE BEGINNING

“We know the Aussies would bet on two flies crawling up the wall” Bob Willis

PART 3: LEEDS

“I refuse to believe that a cricket ball has ever been hit with greater power or rarer splendour ”

PART 4: TSUNAMIS AND LUCK

MY GOLDEN SUMMER: 1981

My Golden Summer The historian and author looks

MY GOLDEN SUMMER: 1993/94

MY GOLDEN SUMMER 

MY GOLDEN SUMMER: 2001

MY GOLDEN SUMMER

MY GOLDEN SUMMER: 2005

Tales & treasures from cricket’s glorious past

DECEMBER 15 1979 THE WACA, PERTH

Events get heavy and metal in Perth − James Wallace looks back at a batting innovation that is as notorious as it was short-lived

Ray of light

THE NIGHTWATCHMAN THE WISDEN CRICKET QUARTERLY

Andy Zaltzman’s Number Palace!

Joe Root begins the Ashes having made 50

Time Warp

WIN!