Cricket category: 444 books
The Ashes: It's All About the Urn
England vs. Australia: ultimate cricket rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards
Graeme Swann leads us on a compelling adventure through one of world sport's most engrossing rivalries. He knows as much as anybody about the heat of England v Australia battles, having played in three series wins and...
Driving Ambition - My Autobiography
The road to the top
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Andrew Strauss, one of the most successful and respected England cricket captains of the modern era, announced his retirement from professional cricket at the end of 2012. In DRIVING AMBITION he gives a candid account of the highs and lows of his remarkable career for Middlesex and England.
An...
by Jonathan Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
An inside account of England’s Ashes triumph in Australia 2010/11. England’s much celebrated Ashes win by two clear matches with three comprehensive innings victories must rank as one of the finest of any English cricket team from any era. It kept people at home glued to their televisions, computers...
The Meaning of Cricket
or How to Waste Your Life on an Inconsequential Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost 100 miles an hour takes the body...
Sachin Tendulkar
A Definitive Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This is not a scorebook, nor is it an accumulation of facts or the extension of a globally recognised brand. This is the first in-depth and comprehensive biography of Sachin Tendulkar, and it puts Sachin, the cricketer and the human being, in perspective. Tendulkar's story is told here grippingly, with...
The Last Everyday Hero
The Bert Sutcliffe Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
**Magical book about Bert Sutcliffe, the magical batsman who put New Zealand cricket on the map.**This book is a tale of two men: one who became the first hero of New Zealand cricket, and one whose lifelong dream was to write his biography. Bert Sutcliffe, a stout-hearted giant of the post-war cricketing...
by Sujit Mukerjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
An Indian Cricket Century is a collection of the best essays written by Dr Sujit Mukherjee, over four decades. The essays range from portraits of great cricketers like Vijay Merchant and Sunil Gavaskar to wonderfully witty recollections of cricket as played in locations like Patna and Philadelphia. This...
Master Laster
What They Don't Tell You about Sachin Tendulkar
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Master Laster takes you beyond Sachin Tendulkar’s career aggregates and passionate assertions . . .
There are almost as many books about Sachin Tendulkar as there are centuries by him. But, just as there is only one Tendulkar century that came in a winning run chase in the last innings of...
Wisden on India
An anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Throughout its long and distinguished history, Wisden has reported on Indian cricket around the world and commented on its highs and lows. One of the first references to a touring Indian cricket side was in 1889: 'Perhaps the most notable feature of the tour was the wonderfully successful bowing of...
by John Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Welcome to The Periodic Table of Cricket. Here you’ll find the essential elements - batsmen and bowlers past and present - that have left a lasting legacy on this great sport.
As with chemical elements, these international personalities have been arranged based on their characteristics in...
10 for 10
Hedley Verity and the Story of Cricket’s Greatest Bowling Feat
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Hedley Verity was one of Yorkshire and England's greatest cricketers. In a career that ran from 1930 to 1939, the left-arm spin bowler took 1,956 wickets at an average of 14.90. Verity was chiefly responsible for England's only Ashes victory at Lord's in the 20th century, when his 15 wickets helped...
Bodyline Autopsy
The full story of the most sensational Test cricket series: Australia v England 1932-33
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
In 1932, England’ s cricket team, led by the haughty Douglas Jardine, had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen: the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted by Larwood and Bill...
by M. A. PERVEZ
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The jargon of cricket is so rich and varied that it comprises well over 1200 terms and expressions that are used in playing the game as well as in dealing with its non-playing aspects such as record keeping, commenting and administration. The Dictionary of Cricket includes all these terms and expressions...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Cricket Players to Ever Play the Game: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....