THE CRICKETER: CHRISTMAS ISSUE!

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

The Christmas issue of The Cricketer provides pivotal holiday reading, and is packed with winter cheer and fun.

It has a fantastic Ashes cover by Nick Newman, our resident illustrator, with Joe Root and Steve Smith tussling. Please do look carefully at all the hidden detail. It’s a gem.

The issue contains wonderful pieces by editor Simon Hughes, Simon Barnes and Paul Edwards to wrap up cricket in 2017.

We also have light and merry turns by actor/writer Michael Simkins, who penned the magnificent book, Fatty Batter, and The Times’ Patrick Kidd, who recalls how politics and cricket have intertwined many times. 

"When it comes to cricket England are the pigs, the stuffed shirts, the mounted cavalry charge against a rag-tag platoon"

The backstop: In his monthly column, Barney Ronay asks 'are England the bad guys?'

_{England will always be the bad guys says Barney Ronay}

Huw Turbervill speaks to ECB board member, Lord Patel. His tale of poverty and racism in his childhood will leave you awestruck. He believes the South Asian community is ready to fully engage with English cricket now.

Marvel at Smith’s self-denial

"We have seen such Calvinistic discipline from Alastair Cook in his sweatless pomp, although those powers may have peaked at Abu Dhabi two years ago"

_{Mike Selvey on the Australian captain}

We also reveal who you voted for in our readers’ awards, and the XI, an end-of-year quiz and The Googly are also festively themed.

It’s a cracker!

THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE IS OUT DECEMBER 15 OR GO ONE BETTER AND SUBSCRIBE HERE!