The Wisden Cricketer
Encyclopedia
The Wisden Cricketer is the world's best-selling monthly cricket
magazine
.
It was created in 2003 by a merger between The Cricketer
magazine and Wisden Cricket Monthly
.
It was first published by the specialist cricket publisher Wisden
in England, until being acquired by Sky
in April 2007. It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010.
The magazine covers English professional cricket in depth and also carries reports on all Test Matches
and one-day international
cricket played around the world, together with a small amount of coverage of domestic cricket outside the United Kingdom
. In addition, it covers amateur cricket in the United Kingdom.
Available globally both at newsagent
s and via subscription, TWC has an audited sales figure of 34,559, 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its website
, aiming to "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the web
offers."
The Wisden Cricketer formerly had a sister publication called Wisden Asia Cricket
. It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called Cricinfo Magazine
was announced, which has effectively taken its place. The Wisden Cricketer: South African edition recently closed down, too.
Following the sale of the magazine to Test Match Extra, the magazine changed
its name to The Cricketer
(in association with Wisden
) in May 2011.
The editor of The Wisden Cricketer for the entirety of its existence, John Stern, left later that month.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
.
It was created in 2003 by a merger between The Cricketer
The Cricketer
The Cricketer was an English cricket magazine published between 1921 and 2003 when it was merged with Wisden Cricket Monthly and relaunched as The Wisden Cricketer....
magazine and Wisden Cricket Monthly
Wisden Cricket Monthly
Wisden Cricket Monthly was a cricket magazine that ran from June 1979 to September 2003.The driving force behind the creation of WCM was its first editor, David Frith, formerly an editor of its rival, The Cricketer. At first, it operated under the Wisden name using license from John Wisden & Co;...
.
It was first published by the specialist cricket publisher Wisden
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
in England, until being acquired by Sky
British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....
in April 2007. It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010.
The magazine covers English professional cricket in depth and also carries reports on all Test Matches
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
and one-day international
One-day International
A One Day International is a form of limited overs cricket, in which a fixed number of overs, usually 50, but in the past 40, 45 or 60 overs, are played between two teams with international status. The Cricket World Cup is played in this format...
cricket played around the world, together with a small amount of coverage of domestic cricket outside the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. In addition, it covers amateur cricket in the United Kingdom.
Available globally both at newsagent
Newsagent
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s and via subscription, TWC has an audited sales figure of 34,559, 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its website
Website
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, aiming to "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
offers."
The Wisden Cricketer formerly had a sister publication called Wisden Asia Cricket
Wisden Asia Cricket
Wisden Asia Cricket was a monthly English language cricket magazine produced by the British based cricket publishing company Wisden. It is a sister publication to the British focused The Wisden Cricketer...
. It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called Cricinfo Magazine
Cricinfo Magazine
Cricinfo Magazine was a monthly cricket magazine from January 2006–July 2007. It was published by Cricinfo which is the world's largest cricket website and is owned by ESPN. Its predecessor was Wisden Asia Cricket. While the new magazine has no geographical designation in its name, it was aimed...
was announced, which has effectively taken its place. The Wisden Cricketer: South African edition recently closed down, too.
Following the sale of the magazine to Test Match Extra, the magazine changed
its name to The Cricketer
The Cricketer
The Cricketer was an English cricket magazine published between 1921 and 2003 when it was merged with Wisden Cricket Monthly and relaunched as The Wisden Cricketer....
(in association with Wisden
Wisden
The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As well as John Wisden & Co, the group included the The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Cricinfo – the world's highest traffic cricket website – and the Hawk-Eye computerised...
) in May 2011.
The editor of The Wisden Cricketer for the entirety of its existence, John Stern, left later that month.