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THE HUNDRED

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The Top Six The month in cricket No.1

Time is running out for England to make their case unanswerable • An enthralling tussle that spoke volumes for the greatest format was nonetheless a missed opportunity for a team for whom winning has belatedly become an obsession

It’s The Hundred, but for how long? • If this is the last season of The Hundred in its current form, then what, asks Adam Hopkins, does it amount to?

NEWS CYCLE • It’s just a column written by Ben Gardner, nothing more

‘Yawning gap’ between counties exposed • A new report highlights the disparities between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ in English cricket. But while the Hundred windfall represents a boost to cash-strapped clubs, what happens when the coffers run dry?

The DIARY • Bamboozling Test players with mystery spin, wedding antics in the Cotswolds, young talent coming through, and three tons in four weeks

TEAM OF THE MONTH • Jo Harman-McGowan selects a team of the best performers from the last month, including three veteran Indians and a 17-year-old Somerset starlet

POD LiFE • The best of the last month's action on Wisden’s podcast channels

RE:VIEW • Inspired by Mohammed Siraj’s epic feat of endurance in India’s drawn series with England, three writers pick out their favourite performance from a touring seamer on English soil

Mailbox • Letter of the month receives a Wisden iPhone case

The great enigma of English cricket on loving the game to death • ‘Throughout my career I’ve tried to take on too much responsibility. I wish I hadn’t. I wish I’d been more careless, just like I was when I first came around’

THE COUNTY FILES

2-2 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, VOLCANIC, OPERATIC, CHAOTIC, EXHAUSTING TEST SERIES • Kicking off our 14-page review, Phil Walker revisits one of the great Test series of modern times

THE MOMENTS

Root vs the world • Joe Root is now the second-highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket, but where does he rank in the game’s pantheon? Ben Gardner gets into the numbers

WASHINGTON SUNDAR INDIA’S MAN FOR NOW • Washington Sundar began the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy out of India’s Test side and ended it central to their present and future. He talks to Katya Witney about letting go in the toughest situations

MOHAMMED SIRAJ THE EVERYMAN TURNED NATIONAL HERO • Of all this summer’s stars, one man stands alone, writes Aadya Sharma

‘The England team coming to Australia has the capacity to win the thing they all want’ • For the London-based Australian writer and broadcaster Adam Collins, the way England have played this summer - and the hostile way it’s been received back home - throws up fascinating questions ahead of the winter showdown

THE DREAM FACTORY THAT SHOULDN'T NEED TO EXIST • If English cricket had nurtured South Asian cricketers properly, the South Asian Cricket Academy would not have been needed. Since its inception in 2022, its results have been little short of staggering. Sam Dalling goes behind the scenes of an English sporting phenomenon

THE 25 BEST YOUNG PLAYERS IN THE WORLD

BEDSER’S FINAL STAND • Richard Whitehead takes us back to England’s triumphant Ashes tour of 1954/55 and the abrupt dethroning of their champion bowler

INSIDE THE MIND • THE KENT STROKEMAKER SPEAKS TO JO HARMAN-MCGOWAN ABOUT OVERCOMING THE BATTING YIPS, RECEIVING A LIFELINE FROM ROB KEY AND GETTING A SECOND CRACK WITH ENGLAND THAT HE DIDN’T SEE...