''The Wisden Cricketer'' was the world's best-selling monthly

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. It was created in 2003 by a merger between ''

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'' magazine and ''

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''. 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

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and

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in England, until being acquired by

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in April 2007. It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010.

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Available globally both at

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s and via

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, ''TWC'' had an audited sales figure of 34,559, 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its

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, aiming "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the

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offers." ''The Wisden Cricketer'' formerly had a sister publication called ''

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''. It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called ''

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'' was announced, though that was closed down shortly after ESPN's acquisition of Cricinfo. ''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 ''

'' magazine and changed its name to The Cricketer (in association with ''

'') in May 2011. The editor of ''The Wisden Cricketer'' for all its existence, John Stern, left later that month.

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