Wisden Cricket Monthly

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One hundred reasons to be cheerful

The Top Six • The month in cricket

England seek new alchemy by exploring familiar ground • Andrew Miller reflects on the appointment of Stephen Fleming as Test coach and Joe Root's re-appointment as captain, and wonders if England's ongoing love affair with New Zealand cricket has made things a little too cosy

The timeless genius of Sir Garfield Sobers • Following the death of the game's greatest ever all-rounder, Lawrence Booth considers how Sobers would have navigated the game in the modern, T20-dominated era

Speaking a different language • After covering a smorgasbord of formats and tournaments across a jam-packed couple of months, Daniel Norcross reveals some of the challenges the schedule throws up for commentators, not least when covering The Hundred

The Diary • A new franchise, another Hundred final, and the life of a white-ball specialist

TEAM OF THE MONTH • Jo Harman-McGowan picks out the standout performers from the last month including a triumvirate of Bangladeshi history boys and four title winners from The Hundred

RE:VIEW • Three writers give their thoughts on whether this year’s Hundred should be deemed a success

Mailbox • Letter of the month receives their choice of book from the Fairfield collection, available to browse at fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop Only available to UK residents

JACOB BETHELL STYLE & SUBSTANCE • After a “chaotic 12 months”, a knee injury has given Jacob Bethell the opportunity to pause and reflect. Sidelined from the Test series against Pakistan, England’s Test No3 sits down with Ben Gardner at Edgbaston to reflect on his burgeoning international career, the abrupt dismantling of Bazball and his longtime hero being restored to the captaincy

THE COUNTY FILES • Covering all 18 first-class counties in every issue

The Women's Scene • Raf Nicholson reflects on the last month of women's domestic cricket, including a trophy for The Blaze in their final season before assuming a new identity and the winners and losers from The Hundred

The Hundred: Winners and Losers • After Trent Rockets thrashed SunRisers Leeds in the Lord's final to claim their first women's title, we pick out those who prospered and those who fell short

THE TEN MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PLAYERS OF THE CENTURY • To commemorate our hundredth issue, we asked some of our best-loved contributors a deceptively tricky question: who are the most consequential cricketers of the 21st century? And from there, we let the fun commence. WCM's editor-in-chief Phil Walker introduces our 38-page section reflecting on the seismic shocks and shifts of the cricketing century - with a nod to our own one too

THE WINDS OF CHANGE • John Stern, WCM's editor-at-large and former editor of The Wisden Cricketer magazine, introduces our bumper feature on 100 changes to the game in the 21st century

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MARK ALLEYNE INSIDE THE MIND • THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WHITE-BALL CAPTAIN IN THE HISTORY OF COUNTY CRICKET SPEAKS TO JO HARMAN-MCGOWAN ABOUT THE GLORY YEARS AT GLOUCESTERSHIRE, THE BARRIERS HE FACED AS HE ENTERED COACHING, AND THE GROUNDBREAKING ACADEMY IN TOTTENHAM THAT GOT THE BALL ROLLING

Investing in the workforce • Take Her Lead, the charity founded by Isa Guha, has teamed up with the ECB and Metro Bank to invest in the people driving the growth of girls' recreational cricket, writes Adam Hopkins

The Wisden Club Cricket Hall of Fame • Scott Oliver profiles an attacking opening bat...