The Wisden Cricketer "Cricinfo Magazine" was announced, though that was closed down shortly after ESPN's acquisition of Cricinfo. "The Wisden Cricketer: South African edition" recently closed down, too. Following the sale of the magazine to Test Match Extra, the magazine merged with the much older "The Cricketer" magazine and changed its name to The Cricketer (in association with "Wisden") in May 2011. The editor of "The Wisden Cricketer" for all its existence, John Stern, left later that month. The Wisden Cricketer The Wisden Cricketer was the world's best-selling monthly cricket magazine. It was created in 2003 by a merger between "The Cricketer" magazine
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