{"id":576228,"date":"2026-03-31T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:00:10","slug":"which-ones-the-ball-matthew-lewis-wins-wisden-photograph-of-the-year-with-cryptic-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576228\/","title":{"rendered":"Which one’s the ball? Matthew Lewis wins Wisden Photograph of the Year with cryptic click"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a> is the subject of the 2025 Wisden Photograph of the Year, captured by Matthew Lewis as she captained India to victory in the Women’s World Cup final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is the third time Lewis, a professional cricket photographer for Getty Images since 2003, has won the award. No one else has won it more than once since the competition began in 2010.<\/p>\n

“During the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup, there was a moment when the DJ at the ground asked spectators to turn on their phone torches,” said Lewis, who also won in 2014 and 2022.<\/p>\n

“I noticed Harmanpreet was calling for the ball and thought it would be fun to give the illusion there were more cricket balls than the actual one – a play on ‘spot the ball’.”<\/p>\n

India defeated South Africa by 52 runs in the final at Navi Mumbai on November 2 last year to claim their maiden senior women’s global title.<\/p>\n

Patrick Eagar, the acclaimed cricket photographer who was on the expert panel of judges, said: “Modern camera technology has ensured that almost every action photo which was submitted was perfectly in focus, adequately exposed (however poor the lighting) and, quite often, a bit dull.<\/p>\n

“This year’s winner qualifies on the first two points, but has that extra element – humour! It’s a contemporary photograph from a contemporary game – a floodlit match with a white ball – and it just makes you smile. It’s a bit of a puzzle too.”<\/p>\n

The 2025 competition was divided into three categories: men’s professional cricket, women’s professional cricket and recreational cricket with the overall winner selected from the three categories. Lewis’s image also won the women’s professional cricket award.<\/p>\n

Andrew Boyers won the men’s professional award for his photo of Pat Cummins taking an instinctive return catch to dismiss Marco Jansen in the World Test Championship final<\/a>. Jed Leicester won the recreational category for his shot of the girls of Overstone Park Under-13s celebrating at Lord’s despite having lost to Bexley in the final of the ECB Junior National Championship.<\/p>\n

The winning entries feature in the 2026 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack – published on April 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harmanpreet Kaur is the subject of the 2025 Wisden Photograph of the Year, captured by Matthew Lewis as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-576228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}