Wisden Cricket Monthly No 100 - 2026 [EN]

It’s a cliché, and a lie, to say that we never take it for granted. There are times when I feel (amid the routine existential dread) that this is a haven over here, a blessed release from the everyday – and that for all its absurdist grandiosity and intractable problems, the game (in all its forms) is such a singular act of genius that it remains a pretty good estimation of Leibniz’s old line about the best of all possible worlds. That tends to balance things out a bit. Where I balk is when scep