Wisden Cricket Monthly India" editor Suresh Menon, Isa Guha, David Lloyd, Paul Allott, Alison Mitchell, Elizabeth Ammon, Mark Butcher, Christian Ryan and Daniel Norcross. Columnists include "The Independent"'s chief sports writer Jonathan Liew. The revived WCM is operated by Cricket Properties Ltd (CPL). As well as "Wisden Cricket Monthly", CPL also relaunched "www.wisden.com" in November 2017. Ed Kemp and Rich Evans are the website's digital content managers. The driving force behind the creation of WCM was its first editor, David Frith, formerly an editor of its rival, "The Cricketer". At first, it operated under the "Wisden" name using licence from John Wisden &
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack impressions. In more recent years sales of the 2006 edition exceeded 50,000 in total. The size of the print run was based on the publisher's belief that England's successful Ashes campaign the previous summer would attract considerable public interest. Although unsupported by any reliable documentation, it is almost certain that print runs were reduced during the First World War. The 1916 edition, also containing as it does the obituary of W G Grace, is the most expensive 20th century "Wisden". The smallest recent print runs are believed to be for the years 1969 to 1971. Collecting "Wisden"s is a popular