Cricket

WINNER OF THE 2021 WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, this book is a celebration of the elegance and timeless beauty of cricket its greatest and most s...

The gripping and action-packed story of the boy who never gave up! He is that exceptional teenager who returned to play an innings the day his dad ...

Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and spo...

In the movie Bull Durham, frustrated manager Joe Riggins stresses to his team, This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You cat...

Since Test cricket began in 1877, there have been over three thousand players representing their countries in Test matches. World XIs tackles the ...

The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover's bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind. The 64th edition co...

Cricket: A Portrait of a Game is photography in the tradition of the great 20th century photographers. It captures the heart of the game from the c...

Cow Corner is a photographic exploration by Vikram Valluri capturing cricket's influence on India during the Cricket World Cup 2023. The journey ex...

When Cricket and Politics Collided describes one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of English cricket. A meeting on 27 August 1968 t...

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to umpire a match in which the bowlers wore top hats, and gentlemen thought that wearing pads an...

Britain in 1926 was a troubled country. Revolution was in the air as the catastrophicafter-effects of the First World War continued. A General Stri...

Unlike other sports, cricket and especially the club cricket of England and the British Isles allowsrecreational players to rub shoulders with in...

One would think that only a club with at least twenty-two players would arrange to play simultaneous fixtures. But with the Outcasts CC - England's...

The Thin White Line: The Inside Story of Cricket's Greatest Scandal tells the story of the spot-fixing scandal of 2010, which sent shockwaves throu...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 'The g...

The creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, was a hugely enthusiastic cricketer of very little talent. That didn't stop him from leading perhaps the mos...

Living The Dream: with Drive, Ambition & a Dash of Good Luck' is the compelling and poignant memoir of Ken Piesse, Australia's most published l...

Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishn...