Cricket

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...

The tours include an Aborigine team visiting England in 1868, Australia trying to win in India, Sydney Barnes in South Africa, Wally Hammond Down U...

The tours include an Aborigine team visiting England in 1868, Australia trying to win in India, Sydney Barnes in South Africa, Wally Hammond Down U...

The Official England Cricket Annual 2025 offers the full lowdown on the players who make up Englands Mens, Womens, and Disability teams. In additi...