THE CRICKETER: NOVEMBER 2017

Here's what's in this month's mag...

England face a daunting challenge in Australia, and we at The Cricketer Towers have also strived to do the Ashes justice with a magnificent magazine this month.

We have called up some great guest writers, introduced several new regular features, and packed in 16 extra pages for your delectation at no extra cost to you. This is a permanent move. We are continuing to invest in the magazine. We want to give you, our readers, greater value for money and the best possible experience. Our focus will remain on ensuring the very best cricket writers appear in our magazine every month, writing about subjects which are of most interest to you.

In those extra pages, Gideon Haigh starts a brilliant new monthly column called The Window, in which he selects and describes a memorable picture from the past. In From the Archive, we raid The Cricketer’s rich 96-year-old back catalogue for choicest nuggets, written and visual; editor Simon Hughes probes famous players’ techniques in The Analyst; and in County Cricket in 100 Objects, we are selecting iconic images of our domestic game and delving into their significance. First up is the manual scoreboard at the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury.

The Ashes is the biggest show in town, and we reflect that with a super 30-page section – it contains all you need to know on the players, venues, start times and so on… plus Michael Vaughan has given us a lively interview on a variety of Ashes-related topics, including the captaincy battle. Celebrated Australian scribe Malcolm Knox looks at the state of play down under, Gideon Haigh focuses on the Bodyline series, David Frith recalls an extraordinary selection meeting with John Arlott and EW Swanton in 1977, plus in Ivo on Ivo, Tennant recalls Ashes ‘daddy’ Bligh.

If that is not enough, we have an interview with Eoin Morgan on England’s white-ball fortunes and the new pre-Christmas T10 competition; Pat Murphy recalls his 35 memorable years of cricket reporting for the Beeb; and Jamie Porter tells us how he spearheaded the title triumph of Essex. Simon Wilde writes on how Test durations have varied over the years, and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham tells James Coyne why he loves cricket.

Alongside our columnists Nasser Hussain, Mike Selvey, Barney Ronay and Michael Henderson we also have our 18-county diary, Lancashire are featured in the County Set… and we have a Minor Counties special.

Please also be aware our new book, The Cricketer Anthology of the Ashes, is out now. It is essential reading over the winter – in partnership with its sister magazine, of course.

Until next month…

The magazine is out on Friday November 3 or available online on the same date.