The Solver - Store

Buy crossword, anagram, sudoku related products
puzzle books, crossword and anagram software, electronic dictionaries

Home page

Wednesday, 17 August 2005

Home page

Add to Favourites

Link to this page

Something else

Current Store: UK Store

In association with Amazon.co.uk

UK Store
front page

Back to listings

Product Categories

Books : Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2008 (Wisden Cricketers' Almanack)

by: Scyld Berry


Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35805 EAN: 9781905625116 ISBN: 1905625111 Label: John Wisden & Co Ltd Manufacturer: John Wisden & Co Ltd Number Of Pages: 1664 Publication Date: April 07, 2008 Publisher: John Wisden & Co Ltd Release Date: April 07, 2008 Sales Rank: 3965 Studio: John Wisden & Co Ltd	Average Rating: List Price: £40.00 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £23.95 You Save: £16.05 (40%) Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Buy Now!

Related Items:

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- An old friend
While other traditions are undermined and cheapened all around us, Wisden never lets us down. My wife thinks I'm a sad git reading a thousand pages of cricket scorecards, but I don't care. You can lose yourself in Wisden for hours on end, from excellent leading articles, through endless stats and records, through obscure cards and obituaries to quirky little reports of cricket related oddities from around the world.

Never afraid to say it as it is, Wisden's journalistic standards remain ... Read More

Rating:

- Buy this!
Is there anything left to say about Wisden? The 2008 issue has a new editor in Scyld Berry but apart from that, it's as you would expect.
The writers aren't slow in dishing out brickbats where due - the dreadful 2007 World Cup in particular, or praising things that work - the 2007 World Twenty 20.

The only abberation I have found is the missing attendance figure for the Friends Provident Trophy Final. What I've always found strange is that whilst gate figures are given for domestic ... Read More

Rating:

- As perennial as the spring
The daffodils are out, the smell of freshly cut grass (well when it stops snowing) and the annual appearance of the cricketers' bible heralds brighter days ahead. Have started to buy the large edition since 2006--it adds more scholary weight to this mighty tome in my opinion--and can't wait for Amazon to deliver me this years issue. An hour with Wisden is, for me, the perfect antidote to modern life. And for £30 its an absolute bargain for all the hours of pleasure it brings.

Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Buy Now!

Browse for similar items by category: