{{Short description|Monthly UK cricket magazine from 2003}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The Wisden Cricketer | logo = | image_file = | image_size = 140px | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = John Stern | editor_title = Editor | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = [[Cricket]] | frequency = Monthly | format = Print and digital | circulation = | publisher = [[Wisden]] (2003–2007)<br>BSkyB Publications Ltd / [[Sky UK|Sky]] (2007–2010)<br>TestMatchExtra.com Ltd (2010–2011) | founded = 2003 | founder = Formed by merger of ''[[The Cricketer]]'' and ''[[Wisden Cricket Monthly]]'' | firstdate = {{Start date and age|2003|09}} | finaldate = May 2011 (renamed ''The Cricketer'') | finalnumber = | company = Wisden Cricketer Publishing Ltd | country = [[United Kingdom]] | based = [[London]], [[England]] | language = English | website = {{URL|wisdencricketer.com}}<br>{{URL|thecricketer.com}} | issn = 1740-9519 | oclc = 53269386 }}
'''''The Wisden Cricketer''''' was a monthly [[cricket]] [[magazine]]. It was incorporated in 2003, by a merger between ''[[The Cricketer]]'' magazine and ''[[Wisden Cricket Monthly]]''. It is now no longer connected to Wisden and is called ''The Cricketer''.
The magazine covers English professional cricket in depth and also carries reports on all [[Test cricket|Test Matches]] and [[one-day international]] cricket played around the world, together with a small amount of coverage of domestic cricket outside the United Kingdom. In addition, it covers amateur cricket in the United Kingdom.
It was first published by the specialist cricket publisher [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] in England, until being acquired by [[British Sky Broadcasting|Sky]] in April 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-wisden-cricketer-magazine-joins-sky-291403|title=The Wisden Cricketer magazine joins Sky|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|publisher=[[ESPN Inc.]]|date=19 April 2007|access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref> It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/satellite/a294646/sky-sells-wisden-cricketer-to-consortium/|title=Sky sells 'Wisden Cricketer' to consortium|magazine=[[Digital Spy]]|last=Laughlin|first=Andrew|date=23 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/wisden-cricketer-magazine-sold-to-lord-marland-493843|title=Wisden Cricketer magazine sold|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|publisher=[[ESPN Inc.]]|date=23 December 2010|access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref>
==Details== Available globally both at [[newsagent]]s and via [[subscription]], ''TWC'' had an audited sales figure of 34,559,{{cn|date=March 2022}} 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its [[website]], aiming "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the [[World Wide Web|web]] offers."<ref>"The Wisden Cricketer" 2009.</ref>
''The Wisden Cricketer'' formerly had a sister publication called ''[[Wisden Asia Cricket]]''. It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called ''[[Cricinfo Magazine]]'' was announced, though that was closed down shortly after ESPN's acquisition of Cricinfo{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}. ''The Wisden Cricketer: South African edition'' recently closed down, too.
Following the sale of the magazine to Test Match Extra, the magazine merged with the much older ''[[The Cricketer]]'' magazine and changed its name to The Cricketer (in association with ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'') in May 2011.<ref>{{cite news|author=Luft, Oliver|title=Wisden Cricketer renamed The Cricketer|url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/wisden-cricketer-renamed-cricketer/1070304|access-date=24 November 2022|work=Campaign|date=17 May 2011}}</ref> The editor of ''The Wisden Cricketer'' for all its existence, John Stern, left later that month.
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