England women’s cricket team pose with the World Cup trophy
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Black rowers from South Africa are challenging not just sporting norms, but the colonial legacy that still shapes global access to water and opportunity, writes LEAH WILLINGHAM
THE call of spring makes demands on the cricket follower to reflect on the state of this greatest of sports, but also to express concern for its future direction and reminisce on past glories.
Covering such a mixture and more, the annual publication of Wisden provides an opportune sounding-board.
The theme of this year’s volume seems to be inclusion.
JON GEMMELL presents his annual review of ’the bible of cricket,’ which provides insight into the sport, and its social, economic and political setting
Supreme Court ruling prompts sporting bodies to redefine eligibility by biological sex
