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The Top Six The month in cricket No. 1

Australian fallibilities whet England's Ashes appetite • Andrew Miller considers how the beaten World Test Championship finalists are shaping up for this winter’s Ashes and says England’s harum-scarum approach is as likely as any strategy to deliver success Down Under

Goodbye Syd • When Dean Wilson agreed to co-write Dave Lawrence’s autobiography, he had no idea where it would take him. Following Lawrence’s death last month, he reflects on a life well-lived that was cut tragically short

NEWS CYCLE • Sunny G has the tyranny of the alphabet in his sights, writes Ben Gardner

Talent and nous make Smith the whole package • Jamie Smith’s electrifying start to his Test career has drawn various comparisons, but England’s wicketkeeper is very much his own man, writes Lawrence Booth

The DIARY • A global trophy, a passport fiasco and an almighty hangover

TEAM OF THE MONTH • Jo Harman-McGowan selects a team of the standout performers from the past month including three members of the South African team which lifted the World Test Championship trophy at Lord’s

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

Greener Futures NO.11 A PLAN FOR ACTION • Next in our series, Jo Harman-McGowan unpacks a new climate and nature action plan designed to help clubs of all sizes make a change for the better

RE:VIEW • Should county cricket persist with the Kookaburra ball in the Championship?

Mailbox • Letter of the month receives a Wisden iPhone case

An audience with the Godfather of Indian cricket • ‘Most of the money generated in the game comes from India, so it’s only fair that they get their share of the pound of flesh. And it’s relative. It’s economies. Tomorrow there might be another economy that’s stronger’

Shastri on the titans of Indian batting

THE COUNTY FILES • Covering all 18 first-class counties in every issue, including news, interviews and stats from the men’s and women’s game

Arthur taps into remote working

Turner and Thompson offer glimpse of bright future

Westley's boys stuck in the mire

Crane rips it up before injury strikes again

Gloucestershire honour club legend Lawrence

Red-hot Varma sprinkles stardust

Muyeye shows his class

Anderson takes the lead

Budinger breaks new ground

Pace tyros give Seaxes cutting edge

Zaib reaches new heights

Gordon blazes a trail

Kohler-Cadmore adds top-order fizz

County giants lay out their vision for the future

Coles runs hot to keep Sussex sizzling

Barnard brilliance hides in plain sight

Hose pipes up to offer Pears hope

White rises for the White Rose

Revolution in the head • Ben Duckett has become one of the best batters in the world by doing it entirely on his own terms. He tells Phil Walker how he pulled it off

The long walk to redemption • Daniel Gallan reports on South Africa’s emotional and long-awaited World Test Championship triumph at Lord’s and considers what the future holds for a much-maligned competition which delivered a showstopper of a final

THE 40 BEST YOUNG PLAYERS IN THE WORLD

The restlessness of genius • As Barry Richards, the South African batting great, turns 80, Jon Hotten reflects on a remarkable career that left a tantalising sense of what might have been

SAMIT PATEL INSIDE THE MIND • 60 ENGLAND APPEARANCES: SIX TESTS, 36 ODIS...