The Wisden Cricketer in England, until being acquired by Sky in April 2007. It was then sold to its current owners, TestMatchExtra.com Ltd, in December 2010. Available globally both at newsagents and via subscription, "TWC" had an audited sales figure of 34,559, 95 per cent of it from the UK. In 2008, it launched its website, aiming "to showcase the content of The Wisden Cricketer while exploring the greater flexibility that the web offers." "The Wisden Cricketer" formerly had a sister publication called "Wisden Asia Cricket". It folded in July 2005, but in December 2005 a new publication from the same company called
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