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What you get when you join Wisden Wisden CricInfo staff - February 4, 2002
Click here to subscribe to Wisden.com Welcome to Wisden.com, the website from the oldest name in cricket publishing. The blue clicks are free, while the yellow ones are for members only. Here is a run-down of what you get when you join. The pick of the Almanack For less than the price of one Almanack, you will have access to the best bits of all 139 editions. Every Test and one-day international report, every tour summary, every essay or editorial, every profile or obituary. Plus our own back pages on Wisden.com. No other cricket archive comes close.
Hundreds of player pages Pages for players in any current series are free. But we also have pages for 900 other players, from WG Grace to Courtney Walsh. Just about everybody who has played 20 Tests or 50 one-day internationals is here, with an overview by a leading writer, career stats (updated ball by ball for current players), basic facts, and, coming soon, links to their finest hours and darkest days. Sit forward and enjoy Matthew Engel on Ian Botham, Gideon Haigh on the Chappells or Scyld Berry on Gavaskar.
Wisden 20:20 statistics Our statisticians record up to 24 aspects of every ball in international cricket to bring you in-depth analysis of what really happens, in words and lively graphics. Sample here
The Wisden 100 The Wisden 100, launched to worldwide publicity in July 2001, is a sophisticated computer ranking of all the 54,000 or so performances in Test history. Don Bradman is No. 1 among the batsmen, the slightly less famous Hugh Tayfield among the bowlers. Mark Butcher crashed in to the Top 50 with his match-winning 173 not out in August; Anil Kumble is No. 2 in the bowling. Members can browse the full list, with pictures and comments on every one of the top performances.
Live comment Basic live coverage is free, but members get something a bit special. Nasser Hussain shares his thoughts at the end of every international day that England play (captaincy commitments permitting) in his Captain Calling column and the Wisden Verdict gives our line on the day's action around the time the players emerge from the shower.
The Wisden Records Traditionally, if cricket fans want to settle an argument, they look in Wisden. Now they can look on their computer screen. Want to see where Murali stands in the all-time wickets list, whether Tendulkar has more runs than Bradman, or who the youngest Test player was? It's all here, updated every day.
Your questions answered Got a historical or statistical query that our Records don't cover? Just ask our Steven Lynch, who comes up with the answers in the much-imitated Ask Steven column. He doesn't know everything - it just looks that way. (Please note: not all questions can be answered.)
Multimedia features From time to time, we will bring members multimedia specials on selected subjects. Look out for a clickable package on one of the most famous matches of all time - the Tied Test between Australia and West Indies in 1960-61, complete with action footage of the nerve-jangling final over. Wisden.com has acquired rights to historic footage from British Pathe and ABC in Australia and we will be editing them into a Clip of the Week feature. We also have rights to the world-famous Hulton Getty archive, and will be adding galleries of historic photos to the site, many of them unseen for decades.
What it costs Membership is £25 or US$37.50 a year. That's five pounds less than a copy of the Wisden Almanack. We have two special introductory offers, and you can pay by the month if you prefer, at £2.50 or US$3.75. People pay thousands of pounds for a single early edition of the Almanack; you can have access to the pick of all 138 for just £25.
Why it costs Some readers have asked why we need to charge at all. The answer is because it cost a lot to put the site together. Around 50,000 pages of the Almanack had to be selected, photocopied, input, proof-read, formatted and uploaded. Reporters, editors, designers, programmers and statisticians had to be hired. Advertising can only pay for a little of this. Increasingly on the web, as in other forms of publishing, you get what you pay for. We hope you will agree that in this case, you get a great deal. Click here to subscribe to Wisden.com
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