Six reasons to pick up the November issue of The Cricketer!

All 18 counties' 2023 campaigns are reviewed, from Derbyshire to Yorkshire – we have two pages per first-class club: on their red-ball and white-ball showings, and the state of play off the field

You can buy a copy of the issue online HERE or SUBSCRIBE HERE! Here's what's in the mag...

1. "I love this place. I love Surrey. It has been my life, it has been Dad's life"

Alec Stewart explains how Surrey won their second straight title, and what the club means to him.

2. "Can Mickey Arthur's head continue to be in two places at once with Derbyshire and Pakistan? How can Gloucestershire turn things around financially?

Editor Huw Turbervill says some counties are clearly facing an uncertain winter.

^{County review}

3. George Dobell says the England and Wales Cricket Board has to rein in its spending

"When you look at how the money has been spent, when you reflect on the vast waste on The Hundred, the burgeoning number of executives and how well they have been rewarded, it doesn't seem that tough to ensure that no children are forced out of the game because they can't afford kit or coaching, does it?"

4. "If Elon Musk was to rediscover his childhood affection for South African cricket and endeavour to follow his team around India, even he might go into a cold sweat thinking about the number of flights"

James Coyne comes off his long run to slam a World Cup schedule that sees England having to play group games on eight different grounds.

^{Surrey retain the title}

5. "We went into the room behind the shop, where the great old man himself signed my new bat, in copper-plate handwriting, with a fountain pen: JB Hobbs"

Mike Brearley explains how he developed a passion for cricket watching his dad Horace play, and from early encounters with the likes of Jack Hobbs.

6. "Sibley has got slower and colder, ploughing his way across the horizon like a Soviet tractor"

Barney Ronay discusses how 'slow but steady' Dom Sibley played a key role in Surrey's win.

^{2019 revisited}

Elsewhere... Matthew Pryor revisits the 2019 World Cup final and reassesses how England won; Chris Cowdrey is taken to lunch by his best friend David Gower;Sky Sports News presenter Mike Wedderburn tells us about his stint at Hampshire as a fast bowler alongside Robin Smith and Malcolm Marshall; Nasser Hussain answers your questions; Gideon Haigh looks through The Window, and we round up the late summer action in the professional and recreational games.

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