I m awaiting my copy of the latest Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. ‘First week of May,’ my friendly bookseller assures me.

It’s not a book I buy every year like the far cheaper Australian Broadcasting Corporation season guide, but it’s nice to be enriched with a Wisden once every three to four years. And after you’ve had your fill, it makes for a decorative line-up on your bookshelf.