Cricket category: 444 books

For over 50 years, Test Match Special has provided listeners with every Test cricket ball, batting average, and plenty of views from the boundary, too. But how well do you know your cricket? Pit your wits against Aggers, Tuffers, Boycs and Johnners – and try not to get caught out! Can you...

Cricket is a game played around the world. Are you geared for success? Then read along to learn about cricket players and teams from across the world.

First published in 1997 and now available as an ebook. Controversial, hard-hitting, and thought provoking. In The Botham Report, the man who for nearly two decades thrilled cricket fans all over the world, gives his forthright answer to the question: “What is wrong with English cricket?” Botham...

The Know the Game Complete Skills series is a perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Compiled from the individual Know the Game Cricket titles, the book will teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying the sport – by giving them plenty of simple practice drills...

Unflinchingly honest, evocative and at times controversial, Test of Character takes readers onto the field and into the dressing room. With unrivalled access to legends from around the globe, it bears witness to cricket’s seminal moments and explores the biggest issues facing the game today....

More than any other sport, cricket highlights our peculiarities and quirks, our strengths and weaknesses – sporting or otherwise. It welcomes all-comers, no matter what their quirks or achievements. Cricketing Allsorts celebrates those oddities and records, and offers a lively portrait of the game...

One-third of all of India's international runs have been scored by batsmen who came through the ranks of Bombay cricket. Bombay has won the Ranji Trophy forty times, fifteen of them in a row. Bombay batsmen have scored 461 centuries and fifty-eight double hundreds in the tournament. A Million Broken...

The book is dedicated to cricket Winners who, if they happen to read it, should be men enough to restrain themselves from throwing stones at others. As many as 117 controversies have been listed in the book which has been written after in-depth research from among piles of clippings, meticulously...

Often described as the greatest cricketer of all time, W. G. Grace started his long career in 1865, and is said to have revolutionised the sport. The last two decades before the First World War have been called the ‘Golden Age of Cricket’, and the period produced some great players and memorable...

Who scored the 5000th international century? Which New Zealand Test captain married a Miss Universe? And which Test cricketer's son was placed on Interpol's most-wanted list? From the beginnings of the game to the present day, Inside Edge delivers a treasure trove of global cricketing curiosities. Immerse...

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Thomas Lord's ground is one of the most famous sporting venues in the world. The long acknowledged headquarters of cricket, its illustrious history stretches back two hundred years. Many books have been written about it, but Anthony Meredith offers something new - a personal Vade Mecum, telling the...

white trousers is a guide to cricket survival in the white heat of dressing room banter and pub chat, it shows how respect can be earned, bantering mastered and local talent impressed: this is a book that will change cricket and sex lives alike.white trousers reveals strategies for talking,...

Five Trophies and a Funeral: The Building and Rebuilding of Durham County Cricket Club is the story of how English cricket's youngest first-class county quickly became the country's top team, before overstretching themselves financially to the brink of extinction. When Durham joined the professional...