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  • But why does Wisden, which is not compiled on a hot day, and boasts literary standards which no other sporting publication can match, feel obliged to transcribe his words verbatim, as if they were Holy Writ?

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • But why does Wisden, which is not compiled on a hot day, and boasts literary standards which no other sporting publication can match, feel obliged to transcribe his words verbatim, as if they were Holy Writ?

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • But why does Wisden, which is not compiled on a hot day, and boasts literary standards which no other sporting publication can match, feel obliged to transcribe his words verbatim, as if they were Holy Writ?

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • First let's point out that this doesn't seem to be a joke - this yearbook actually does exist, like a kind of Wisden Cricketers 'Almanack for Catholicism.

    New Humanist Blog 2009

  • First let's point out that this doesn't seem to be a joke - this yearbook actually does exist, like a kind of Wisden Cricketers 'Almanack for Catholicism.

    New Humanist Blog 2009

  • First let's point out that this doesn't seem to be a joke - this yearbook actually does exist, like a kind of Wisden Cricketers 'Almanack for Catholicism.

    New Humanist Blog 2009

  • We made such a row that the other customers put their heads out, and it turned into an impromptu innings on the landing, whores versus patrons (I must set down the rules for brothel cricket some day, if I can recall them; cover point took on a meaning that you won't find in "Wisden", I know).

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Incorrect umpiring decisions can affect the results of matches and also players 'careers so I felt that anything that could bring more correct decisions had to be good for the game, "Arthur wrote in' Wisden 'magazine.

    The Times of India 2010

  • At entry level, there's the stuff everyone knows – Red Rum, Trevor Brooking, the only Nobel prize winner to have featured as a first-class cricketer in Wisden.

    How I acquired my pub quiz technique | Emma John 2011

  • It's fetishistic; whenever the Sunday Times team come out with their Wisden of wealth, I really get the sense that if they could only persuade JK Rowling to get all her money out of the bank, put it in a room and roll about in it, then their every dream would have been realised, and they could shut down and go home.

    Is extending higher education access still the right course? 2011

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