Cricket category: 444 books

• What does the term 'sledging' refer to? • How many First-Class records were set by W. G. Grace? • How old the youngest ever cricketer to play a Test match was? Cricket fans don’t just like cricket, they love it! Whether you’re a soldier in the Barmy Army or you enjoy...

This book is a handy reference containing an anthology of anthems, flags and mottos of the Caribbean islands. It also highlights the major attractions of historical, cultural and natural (physical) features of every country in that region. Unity Beyond the Cricket Field also defines the role...

Understanding cricket and cricketers has been a lifelong quest for Merv Hughes. * How much can a roommate take before events deteriorate into shaving cream at ten paces? * How seriously should senior players take their responsibility to train young twelfth men? * What makes a...

The cricket world's bestselling pocket annual. The indispensable guide to the season. The Playfair Cricket Annual 2017 includes coverage of the 2016 season, including the Specsavers County Championship, Royal London One-Day Cup and the NatWest T20 Blast. It also contains: a detailed register...

English cricket fans will love Jarrod Kimbers second Ashes book Australian Autopsy Australian cricket fans perhaps less so! Using his own unique brand of dry humour Aussie Kimber tells the story of theevents of the winter 2010/11 series and Englands record breaking 3-1 victory Down Under. Kimbertravels...

Bret Lee is one of the greatest Australian fast bowlers in the history of cricket. He has many bowling records to his name. Lee was born on 8th November 1976 at Wollongong, New South Wales. He stormed into the Australian cricket team with his extremely fast bowling. Soon he began to be recognized...

Three times an Ashes winner, Trevor Bailey is regarded along with Ian Botham as Englands premier all-rounder since the Second World War. He was a schoolboy prodigy at Dulwich College and won cricket and soccer blues at Cambridge University and an FA Amateur Cup winners medal with Walthamstow in 1951/2....

Nowt stops for cricket in Yorkshire. Passion runs deep, beyond those in whites, to the groundsmen, tea ladies, scorers and umpires who embody the game. All Wickets Great and Small is a romp across the landscape of amateur cricket in Yorkshire during the summer of 2015. Author John Fuller looks at the...

Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2002 A model Victorian sporting all-rounder, Charles Alcock was a prime mover in the development of both football and cricket as the world’s biggest sports. As a player, he was the first ever footballer to be ruled offside, the...

After yet another poor performance, John is dropped from Welmsworth Seconds, and at sixty-one years old thinks his career in village cricket might be over for good. Then he gets one last chance to prove himself ... Never Give Up is the first in Michael White's Tales from the Village Green series....

The 65th edition of the PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL reviews England's two triumphant 2011 home Test series against Sri Lanka and India, as well as their autumn/winter matches against India and Pakistan. The book is packed with all the essential information required to follow events on the cricket field,...

Written from the unique point of view of the club chairman, A Year in the Life of Somerset County Cricket Club is the story of the highs and lows of county cricket.Somerset County Cricket Club was founded in 1875 and since then has provided its many members and supporters with countless memories....

Cricket is undoubtedly the elegant game, occupying a long-established and distinguished position in the annals of sporting history. Played by gentlemen the world over, the word cricket may derive from the Anglo-Saxon word cricc, meaning a staff or crutch - giving us a game played with a long wooden implement...