Welcome…

In the four years SPIN magazine has been on the news-stand we’ve put together about two million words on the modern game, including the biggest-ever published interviews with the likes of Tendulkar, Pietersen, Afridi and Flintoff; expert columns from Imran Khan, Tony Greig, Navjot Sidhu and Graham Thorpe; exclusive Hawkeye analysis; and plenty of exclusive photography.

Proper, serious, in-depth coverage of modern cricket for people who love it.

The whole idea was to produce a cricket magazine that felt less like a trip to the headmaster’s office and more like a trip to… the cricket. To show modern cricket fans some things they are genuinely excited about – rather than stuff they should care about.

Until now, that archive has not been available on the web at all. It’s been a real case of miss it and miss out. We thought that was a waste.

The whole archive isn’t on here yet – it’s about 5 per cent – but there should be enough to keep you going, along with all our podcasts, some highlights from the current issue that’s on sale now and some web exclusives.

We’ll be adding more archive material on a daily basis, so make sure to check back.

Our notion is that a magazine is not, as has traditionally been the case, an out-of-date newspaper. Instead, we think of SPIN as a tremendously up-to-date book, a glossy souvenir of recent cricket that has the space and time to offer in-depth coverage of upcoming events.

We remain the only independent cricket magazine in the UK. Wisden is owned by Sky – although no-one ever seems to mention this, oddly – while All Out Cricket is funded by the PCA and the ECB.

Whether these titles can comment independently on the major issues that confront our game is not for me to say. I can only say that SPIN can, and does.

Keep coming back to see more info on some special SPIN events this summer and some very tasty offers for our readers.

Let us know what you think: spin@spincricket.com