Simon Wilde

Simon Wilde(born 1960) is an Englishcricketjournalist and author. He has written forThe TimesandThe Sunday Timessince 1998, and is currently the latter's cricket correspondent.^[1]^[2]Three of his books have been short-listed for theWilliam Hill Sports Book of the Yearaward:Ranji:A Genius Rich and Strange(1990),Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar(1994) andShane Warne:Portrait of a Flawed Genius(2007).

When his book on Ranji was reissued in 2005, a reviewer inThe Independentwrote that it was "superbly researched and as well written".^[3]In reviewing Wilde's book on Warne, Andrew Baker, writing in theDaily Telegraph,said that "Wilde has some pedigree in the quality cricket book market", and that the book "is a bit more than sensible and objective. It is entertaining, too..."^[4]

In recent years, he has written the annual review of events in world cricket in the previous year forWisden Cricketers' Almanack.^[5]

He has three children and lives inHampshire.

Bibliography

Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange,Kingswood, 1990,ISBN 978-0-413-63520-4
Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar,Gollancz/Witherby, 1994,ISBN 978-0-85493-242-9
Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers,Gollancz, 1998,ISBN 978-0-575-06453-9
Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket,Aurum Press, 2001,ISBN 978-1-85410-816-6
Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius,John Murray Publishers, 2007,ISBN 978-0-7195-6869-5
Ian Botham: The Power and the Glory,Simon & Schuster UK, 2011,ISBN 978-1-84739-798-0
England The Biography: The Story of English Cricket 1877-2019,Simon & Schuster UK, 2019,ISBN 9781471154843

Note:He was also theghost writerforGraham Thorpe's autobiography:Graham Thorpe: Rising from the Ashes(2005).^[1]

Notes

^^a ^b[1]Brief profile published inThe Independent.
^[2]Author information on Amazon.
^The Independent,16 December 2005, "Sports books for Christmas: From Ranji to the romantic epic of winning the Ashes"
^Daily Telegraph,29 May 2007, "Sportsbooks: Another spin on Warne"
^E.g. p118 of the 2008 edition.

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[Indie-1] [1]Brief profile published inThe Independent.

[Warne-2] [2]Author information on Amazon.

[3] The Independent,16 December 2005, "Sports books for Christmas: From Ranji to the romantic epic of winning the Ashes"

[4] Daily Telegraph,29 May 2007, "Sportsbooks: Another spin on Warne"

[5] E.g. p118 of the 2008 edition.

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