Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2021 edited by Lawrence Booth Wisden, £55.00
IT’S A SLIMMER WISDEN THIS YEAR, only 1,250 pages, but Lawrence Booth, editor of this celebrated annual publication for the last 10 of its 158 summers, can permit himself a bow in the bathroom of his house in Barnes, if nobody is looking. To bring out a book of record when so much cricket was lost in 2020 to an international plague tested him almost as much as it challenged the cricketers in their Covid bubbles. Hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack.
When you have read some of the contributions, however, you may feel like asking them to put those hats back
