The Cricket Reporting Agency (CRA) was founded by Charles Pardon and George Kelly King in 1880. Throughout its 85-year existence, the CRA provided the Press Association (PA) with cricket and

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reports and scores for use by newspapers. In its early years it covered other sports as well, including

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. From Charles Pardon's becoming editor of ''

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "Bible of cricket" (or variations thereof) has been applied to ''Wi ...

'' in 1887, the editor was nearly always a CRA partner. The CRA was responsible for the editorial production of the ''Almanack'', until in 1965 the agency merged with the PA.''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1966 edition, pp vi-vii.

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