Cricket Photograph of the Year Competition

Capturing cricket's future

'The doyen of cricket photography' - Patrick Eagar In its millennium edition, Wisden invited Patrick Eagar, the doyen of cricket photography, to select the defining images of the 20th century, one from each decade.

The ten photographs that appear in Wisden 2000 give an immediate and fascinating glimpse into cricket history, from George Beldam’s iconic image of Victor Trumper to an extraordinary salmon-leap of a catch by Jonty Rhodes.

In 2010 MCC, in partership with Wisden, launched an annual Cricket Photograph of the Year competition.

The competition is open to amateurs & pros... photographers that is The winning images each year are chosen by a panel of independent expert judges appointed by Wisden and MCC and independent of outside influence.

Every year the judges will draw up a shortlist from which they will select a winner and two runners-up. The chosen images will best capture the drama, spirit or essence of cricket, wherever in the world it is played, watched or experienced.

The winning photographs will be the first three images in the colour section of each new edition of Wisden.

Eleven shortlisted entries will be exhibited at Lord’s, and there are prizes for all eleven shortlisted images.

Using a camera may improve Andre Nel & Ashwell Prince's chances The competition is open to all photographers - amateur and professional - throughout the world. The only stipulations are that entries must, in one way or another, have a cricket theme, and have been taken during the current calendar year.

Beyond that, there is no restriction whatever. Photographs may be from the beach, village green, maidan, street, stadium, snowfield - anywhere. Put simply, Wisden and MCC invite submissions of the most outstanding images of cricket captured this year.

Had such a competition existed for the past 100 years, the range of images built up within the pages of Wisden would have formed a compelling archive of the game’s ever-changing face. Those editing Wisden in the 22nd century should be lucky enough to have just such an archive.