Simon Wilde (born 1960) is an English cricket journalist and author. He has written for The Times and The Sunday Times since 1998, and is currently the latter's cricket correspondent.[1][2] Three of his books have been short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award: Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990), Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994) and Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007).
When his book on Ranji was reissued in 2005, a reviewer in The Independent wrote that it was "superbly researched and as well written".[3] In reviewing Wilde's book on Warne, Andrew Baker, writing in the Daily 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 for Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[5]
He has three children and lives in Hampshire.
- ^ [1] Brief profile published in The 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.