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Affinities and beyond

EDITOR’S LIST

WISDEN CRICKET MONTHLY

The month in cricket No.1

Chasing rainbows • Cricket’s inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics may help the sport reach untapped markets, writes Andrew Miller. But any suggestion that it can offer succour to the neglected international game is nothing more than a pipedream

Team of the Month • Jo Harman picks a side of the month’s top performers, including a trio of South Africans and a recordbreaking Aussie starlet

Divide and rule • India’s resounding win over Pakistan in the World Cup group stage, played out in front of more than a 100,000 home supporters at the Narendra Modi Stadium, symbolised much more than a cricket match, writes Suresh Menon

We will never see a player like Alastair Cook again • With the opener ’s retirement, a whole way of playing goes with him. We will never see his like again, writes Phil Walker

No line in the sand in Dharamshala • The treacherous outfield at Dharamshala has put the careers of international cricketers at risk, writes Lawrence Booth. But in the increasingly political world of Indian cricket, any criticism is likely to fall on deaf ears

NEWS CYCLE

MATTHEW HAYDEN • The former Aussie opener who helped rewrite the rules of Test match batting on the thrills and chills and joys and concerns of the game as it looks today

RE:VIEW

The Game’s GONE • James Wallace (and his alter-ego) on shrinking boundaries and the spectator experience

Mailbox

THE COUNTY FILES • Covering each of the 18 firstclass counties every month, including news, interviews and stats, as well as the oddities which make county cricket what it is

Regional Round-Up • Jo Harman picks out the big stories from the last month of women’s regional cricket, including a landmark double for Southern Vipers and an interview with treble winner Georgia Adams

SPINBALL WIZARD • From his preternatural first steps in the game, to the wilderness years that followed, leading to his triumphant arrival as the bowler England hoped he would become, Adil Rashid talks Jo Harman through his singular career

English Leg Spin: The Future • The relationship between English cricket and leg-spin is complicated. James Wallace looks at the current proponents of the art who are hoping to fizz rather than fade

Making sense of the market • After an unprecedentedly busy summer in the county transfer market, Matt Roller speaks to those on the coalface about how the system works and what factors drive players to seek out new pastures

Podcasters of the world unite and take over • Cricket podcasts are springing up everywhere, each scrapping for a corner of the market, and in many cases collaborating with others in a bid to achieve it. How did the humble, largely do-it-yourself medium come to be so dominant, and can its surging popularity impact the game itself?

Beyond the boundary • Six-and-a-half years since his shock retirement, Zafar Ansari, the former England and Surrey all-rounder, talks to Taha Hashim about his new life as a barrister, the confronting experience of serving as a commissioner on the ICEC report, and his enduring love for a game that he wants some distance from

PROCREATION • Next in our series on the origin stories of elite cricketers, Jo Harman meets a South Africa-born England opener who’s done the hard yards under the ever-watchful eye of his father

LOST FAST BOWLERS • Next in our series, we pick out a selection of tearaways who burned brightly but briefly

JASON GILLIESPIE • The former...