John Wisden started Wisden Cricket Almanack the Bible of cricket. The cricket lovers are greatly indebted to “The Little Wonder” for his immense contribution to Cricket literature. The journal started in 1864 as a competitor to Fred Lillywhite’s The Guide to Cricketers. The initial five edition of Wisden was published under the title The Cricketer‘s Almanack. The first edition was only 112 pages small editions. The distinctive bright yellow cover ran from 1938, the 75th edition. Over the years Wisden was edited by many distinguished editors. Sydney Herbert Pardon was the longest-serving editor of ” Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.”
While the game of cricket played the biggest part in Herbert life, he was also a close student of the drama, good music, and a keen follower of racing. These were the four things in which he chiefly delighted, and it was always a proud recollection with him that on each of these four subjects he had written special articles, for The Times.
| Editor | Span |
| W. H. Crockford/W. H. Knight | 1864–69 |
| W. H. Knight | 1870–79 |
| G.H. West | 1880–86 |
| Charles F. Pardon | 1887–90 |
| Sydney Pardon | 1891–1925 |
| C. Stewart Caine | 1926–33 |
| Sydney J. Southerton | 1934–35 |
| Wilfred H. Brookes | 1936–39 |
| Haddon Whitaker | 1940–43 |
| Hubert Preston | 1944–51 |
| Norman Preston | 1952–80 |
| John Woodcock | 1981–86 |
| Graeme Wright | 1987–92 |
| Matthew Engel | 1993–2000 |
| Graeme Wright | 2001–02 |
| Matthew Engel | 2004–07 |
| Tim de Lisle | 2003 |
| Scyld Berry | 2008–11 |
| Lawrence Booth | 2012- |