About SPIN

The whole point of SPIN is that you can't get much of our stuff on the web. Unlike other publications, we don't recycle out-of-date web fare in the mag. So you have to get the magazine.

Original stories, big-name interviews, star columnists, great photography, so-so comedy - and strictly no nostalgia: that's the SPIN formula. Subscribe for a year and get a FREE copy of the Playfair Cricket Annual 2008, packed with all the need-to-know info on this year's county and international teams.

SPIN magazine's contributors are led by Graham Thorpe. Graham played 100 Test for England between 1993 and 2005 and, until just recently, was the assistant coach of New South Wales. Plain-speaking and with inside knowledge of both English and Australian cricket, Thorpey is the ideal pundit: read his views exclusively in SPIN magazine every month.

Our chief writer is Rob Smyth, until recently the cornerstone of the Guardian newspaper's over-by-over coverage. He is the main author of Is It Cowardly to Pray for Rain, the over-by-over account of the 2005 Ashes and is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable (and funny) cricket writers around.

The editor is Duncan Steer. Formerly editor of the ECB's official Test match programme and a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent, Duncan launched SPIN in 2005 because he felt existing cricket titles were stricken by nostalgia and did not offer the modern, in-depth coverage that fans craved.

The Birmingham Post's George Dobell's column has appeared in every issue of SPIN, and offers a frank-speaking, provocative insight into English county cricket.

Other regular contributors have included Dermot Reeve, Imran Khan and Tony Greig.

SPIN is also the only publication in the world to use as-seen-on-TV Hawkeye graphics and data to aid our match previews and analysis.

You can buy SPIN from the online shop - or in Smiths, Tesco or other shops.