Tim Wigmore Audiobooks

Test Cricket: the longest form of the game given a suitably long-form listen

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.8/5 average

152 listener ratings

Who is Tim Wigmore?

Twenty-two hours and forty-two minutes devoted to one sport is a statement of intent. That is the scale of Test Cricket, the title bringing Tim Wigmore into our catalogue, and it is a length that only makes sense when a writer means to tell a history rather than recap a season.

The dual shelving is instructive too. Sport writing that also lands on the biography shelf is usually writing about people: the careers, the rivalries and the temperaments that a five-day game exposes more cruelly than any shorter format ever could.

Anything else about the author would be guesswork on our part, and an author page is not the place for it.

Tim Wigmore in audiobooks

Test Cricket is narrated by Richard Atlee, and across a listen of this length the choice of voice is close to everything; steadiness beats flourish once the running time passes twenty hours.

Listener response so far has been unusually strong, averaging 4.8 across a healthy body of reviews, which for a work demanding this much commitment says a great deal. The title is listed on the site as a scheduled arrival, so this page is worth bookmarking rather than acting on straight away.

Cricket lovers will need no persuading. Anyone curious about why the slowest format inspires such devotion will find the argument laid out at length in the entry below.