Wisden Group succeeded as majority shareholder by his son Mark. The group was broken up in 2007 when "The Wisden Cricketer" was sold to British Sky Broadcasting, "The Oldie" was sold to a group of investors led by the magazine's former business manager, James Pembroke, and Cricinfo was sold to ESPN. John Wisden & Co was sold to A & C Black in 2008. Hawk-Eye remained under the control of Mark Getty, but was eventually sold to Sony Corporation in 2011. Wisden Group The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of "Wisden Cricketers'
A Child Is Born (book) that the book was so culturally influential as to have mediated and to some extent determined the way pregnant women understand their own pregnancies. Images from the book were sent into space aboard the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" space probes. The American Library Association regards it, alongside "Gray's Anatomy", as a core medical reference work for libraries. The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus "in utero". In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's "The First Nine Months Of Life" had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. The images played