The 2023 Wisden award winners and how does Bairstow fit back into the England side?

On this special episode of the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast, Phil Walker, Mark Butcher, Lawrence Booth and Yas Rana discuss the future of Test cricket, England's batting selection dilemmas and an Ollie Pope masterclass at The Oval.

There's also chat about Australia's squad for the Ashes and the latest round of County Championship action, while Lawrence joins the show to talk about the release of this year's prestigious Wisden Almanack, including the award winners for 2023.

Abhishek Mukherjee dials in towards the end of the show to chat with Yas about the last week of IPL action.

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The following message is from The Club Cricket Conference:

With the permission of the family, and in this administrative hiatus before the announcement of Simon’s funeral arrangements, would you please take note of the agreed destination of any donations in his memory.

Please make all donations to:

The Club Cricket Charity

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Account number: 33503410

Please refer to The Simon Prodger Fund

The Family will make the decisions on where the funds will eventually go, but at present they are destined for Simon’s favoured areas of Kenya and areas of cricket needs the UK.

When final arrangements are made, it would be wonderful to announce a huge contribution to his visions of diversity, inclusion and, above all, education through cricket. His legacy must thrive.

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