
Tim Wigmore
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Tim Wigmore
@timwig
✍️ journalist for @TelegraphSport 📚 Author of Test Cricket: A History, Times Sports Book of the Year - https://t.co/tAGfFoVGkq - and other books









Thrilled to see Test Cricket named as sports book of the year in @thetimes today



Celebrating the best in cricket writing. The @RathbonesGroup Cricket Book of the Year shortlist is here. 500 Declared, Scyld Berry (@BloomsburySport) Test Cricket, @timwig (@QuercusBooks) The Ashes Files, @finnysteve (@SevenDialsBooks) The Club, Rod Lyall (@PitchPublishing) The King of Spain and I, Ashley Giles (@FairfieldBooks_) Victory in Australia, Richard Whitehead (@BloomsburySport) #CTSBA26 #ReadingForSport


If he was around now, you can bet your bottom dollar that the old bugger wouldn’t be playing in the County Championship in April. No sir. He’d absolutely be cashing in, chasing the franchise contracts. Gloucestershire would be a lucky to get a look in until June. He was the original, unashamed cricket mercenary. He may still have preferred long form cricket — records meant something to him — but he wouldn’t have been ale to resist the money. He never did.

OUT TODAY!!! Picture of England 20 years photographing the England men’s cricket team. 180 Test matches and 38 overseas tours. The triumphs, travails and travels of English cricket. Wonderful memories told to Rory Dollard by those who were there! amzn.eu/d/0jgPl7i4



Congratulations @RWhitehead61 for winning @CricketSociety / @MCCOfficial Book of the Year award for 2026. A fine achievement & commiserations to @deanbwilson @timwig @swildecricket #maxbonnell #vicmarks who also produced fine books. Standard was very high.



A 6-team T20 Africa Cup - featuring South Africa and Zimbabwe - is in the works. As a soft launch, a T20 tri-series between South Africa, Zimbabwe & Namibia is set for August in Namibia. Plus an update on the proposed Afro-Asia Cup reboot cricketfj.com/p/exclusive-ne…




