The latest edition of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has issued an impassioned warning over the future of Test cricket, arguing the format “needs the kiss of life” and praising England’s attempts to provide one.
While there is nothing new about the sport being placed on some form of endangered list, the words of a publication that is now in its 160th outing stand on an elevated platform. The famous yellow book provides a loving, living history of the game but, when required, attempts to act as a guardian of its future.
