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Monthly UK cricket magazine from 2003

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The Wisden Cricketer Editor John Stern Categories Cricket Frequency Monthly Format Print and digital Publisher Wisden (2003–2007) BSkyB Publications Ltd / Sky (2007–2010) TestMatchExtra.com Ltd (2010–2011) Founder Formed by merger of The Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly Founded 2003 First issue September 2003; 22 years ago (2003-09) Final issue May 2011 (renamed The Cricketer) Company Wisden Cricketer Publishing Ltd Country United Kingdom Based in London, England Language English Website wisdencricketer.com thecricketer.com ISSN 1740-9519 OCLC 53269386

***The Wisden Cricketer*** was a monthly [cricket](/source/Cricket) [magazine](/source/Magazine). It was incorporated in 2003, by a merger between *[The Cricketer](/source/The_Cricketer)* magazine and *[Wisden Cricket Monthly](/source/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 Matches](/source/Test_cricket) and [one-day international](/source/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](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack) in England, until being acquired by [Sky](/source/British_Sky_Broadcasting) in April 2007.[1] It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010.[2][3]

## Details

Available globally both at [newsagents](/source/Newsagent) and via [subscription](/source/Subscription), *TWC* had an audited sales figure of 34,559,[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its [website](/source/Website), aiming "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the [web](/source/World_Wide_Web) offers."[4]

*The Wisden Cricketer* formerly had a sister publication called *[Wisden Asia Cricket](/source/Wisden_Asia_Cricket)*. It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called *[Cricinfo Magazine](/source/Cricinfo_Magazine)* was announced, though that was closed down shortly after ESPN's acquisition of Cricinfo[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]. *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](/source/The_Cricketer)* magazine and changed its name to The Cricketer (in association with *[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)*) in May 2011.[5] The editor of *The Wisden Cricketer* for all its existence, John Stern, left later that month.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["The Wisden Cricketer magazine joins Sky"](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-wisden-cricketer-magazine-joins-sky-291403). *[ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo)*. [ESPN Inc.](/source/ESPN_Inc.) 19 April 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Laughlin, Andrew (23 December 2010). ["Sky sells 'Wisden Cricketer' to consortium"](https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/satellite/a294646/sky-sells-wisden-cricketer-to-consortium/). *[Digital Spy](/source/Digital_Spy)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Wisden Cricketer magazine sold"](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/wisden-cricketer-magazine-sold-to-lord-marland-493843). *[ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo)*. [ESPN Inc.](/source/ESPN_Inc.) 23 December 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** "The Wisden Cricketer" 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Luft, Oliver (17 May 2011). ["Wisden Cricketer renamed The Cricketer"](https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/wisden-cricketer-renamed-cricketer/1070304). *Campaign*. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

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