Lawrence Booth (born 2 April 1975) is an author and a cricket writer for the '' Daily Mail'' and the ''

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'', and editor of ''

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'' since 2011. He was the youngest Wisden editor for 72 years when he was appointed. He has previously written for ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and is a regular contributor to ''

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'' magazine. He wrote guardian.co.uk's The Spin column for seven years, and his Top Spin column for Mail Online was named Online Column of the Year at the 2010 Sports Journalists' Association awards. In March 2013, he won Scoop of the Year at the SJAs after revealing that

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had sent text messages to the touring South Africans the previous summer. He has written, edited or co-written 15 books, including '' Arm-Ball to Zooter'', '' Cricket, Lovely Cricket?'' and the last 11 editions of ''

Wisden ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...

'', including the 150th, published in 2013.

References

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