Lawrence Booth (born 2 April 1975 at Oxford) is a British sports journalist, author, cricket correspondent of the Daily Mail, and editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack since 2012.
Booth became the youngest Wisden editor for 72 years upon his appointment in 2012.
[2] He had previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times, and is still a regular contributor to Wisden Cricket Monthly magazine.
In March 2013, he won Scoop of the Year at the SJAs after revealing that Kevin Pietersen had sent text messages to the touring South Africans the previous summer.
Booth has written, edited or co-written 19 books, including Arm-Ball to Zooter, Cricket, Lovely Cricket?, Bazball, which in 2024 was shortlisted for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year award,[3] and the last 13 editions of Wisden, including the 150th, published in 2013.