Wisden Asia Cricket was a monthly English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 cricket

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 produced by the British based cricket publishing company 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...

. It is a sister publication to the British

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...

 focused The Wisden Cricketer

The Wisden Cricketer

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....

. Some articles appeared in both publications.

Wisden Asia Cricket closed down after its July 2005 edition, but in December 2005 the Wisden Group announced that a new magazine 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...

which was published for the first time in January 2006. While it has no geographical designation in its name, it is aimed primarily at India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n cricket enthusiasts in India and elsewhere, and the initial editorial team was inherited from Wisden Cricket Asia.

External links

• Official website (part of the Cricinfo site)