Rupert Bates

First to London’s Fitzrovia. But let’s take a step back as to how I came to be here. The hero of Taste of London in Regent’s Park last summer was the firepit, run by the brightest and best live-fire chefs in the business, fanning the flames, drawing the crowds and, amid the theatrics, serving meat from the town of Nirvana in the shire of Utopia. On a section of the firepit were pans of paella so huge it was if a Valencian Gulliver had landed in Lilliput with a kitchen designed in Brobdingnag.

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Eric Ravilious (pictured) was commissioned to produce the engraving by Robert Harling, the typographer asked to redesign the 1938 Wisden. © Fleece Press They were never honoured as Cricketers of the Year. But a batsman and a wicketkeeper – both nameless, both virtually faceless – have adorned Wisden now for 76 springs. The wood engraving of the Victorian duo in top hats is one of the sport’s most charming and recognisable images. And yet cricket knows little of its creator.