Cricket category: 444 books
Playing the Game?
Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game? looks at the changing ethics of cricket, from its gentlemanly roots right up until the present day....
The Glory Days of Cricket
The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Broadhalfpenny Down is the Mecca of cricket. The Bat and Ball Inn across the road is pavilion to the whole cricket world. This is the home of the legendary 18th-century Hambledon Club. Every cricketer wants to visit it because they know this is where cricket began. Only it didn’t.
That Broadhalfpenny...
by Samir Chopra
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Eye on Cricket, Samir Chopra, a professor of philosophy and a long-time blogger at ESPNcricinfo, offers us a deeply personal take on a game that has entranced him his entire life in the several lands he has called home. In these essays, Chopra reflects on a childhood centred on cricket, the many...
Cricket Odyssey
A fascinating journey... with 75 legends of all time
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Cricket Odyssey is a skilfully executed, lovingly constructed, book: a literary celebration of over a century-and-a-half of cricket. It has narrative and character study blended in a dexterously refined, yet readable form. It not only manages to pervade the essential of the essentials of some of cricket’s...
The Haywards
The Biography of a Cricket Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Four players, three generations, two counties, one famous family.
The mourners who attended the funeral of Daniel Hayward in 1852 lamented the loss of a fine cricketer, but little did they realise that his family would continue to star in English cricket for another 60 years. One son was a...
by Makarand Waingankar
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Includes stories of 26 awe-inspiring Indian cricketersMeet the stars and stalwarts of cricket in the mostfascinating partnerships of the game’s history.Guts & Glory is a unique book on cricket that chronicles the professional lives of 26 rising players and legends. Dynamic partnerships that have created...
Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy
A Journey to the Heart of Cricket's Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket.
For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover...
by Allan Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
In the twenty years since Allan Border retired as Australian cricket captain he's been one of the game's closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket - based on his experiences as a player, a captain, a selector and a commentator - are fascinating, forthright and informed by more than three...
Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame
My willow-wielding idols, ball-twirling legends and other random icons
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Phil Tufnell, cricket legend and national treasure, has populated his very own Cricket Hall of Fame with a deliciously eclectic collection of cricket legends and offbeat characters, with joyful results.
From boyhood heroes, to legendary team-mates, to fearsome opponents, to idiosyncratic umpires...
Flying Stumps and Metal Bats
Cricket's Greatest Moments by the People Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Since 2003 the Wisden Cricketer has run a monthly feature called ‘ Eyewitness’ . Each article takes a seminal moment in the history of cricket and invites the key protagonists to reminisce about it, relive it and reflect. Now for the first time the very best of ‘ Eyewitness’ has been collected...
Wisden Anthology 1978-2006
Cricket's Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
A definitive tome, essential to all cricket book collectors and Wisden readers.
In the early 1980s Wisden published four anthologies that celebrated the best of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack stretching back to its first edition in 1864. Edited by the respected jazz musician, raconteur and cricket-lover,...
Lord's Firsts
200 Years of Making History at Lord’s Cricket Ground
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Since 1858 cricketers from all over the world have dreamed of performing beneath the unchanging gaze of Father Time. Their adventures are to be found in these pages, in this wonderful tribute to the home of cricket. A fascinating insight into the history of Lord's. IMRAN KHAN Lord's Cricket Ground,...
by Mike Coward
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
With fervour, warmth and humour, Cricket Beyond the Bazaar examines Australian cricket on the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the triumphs and controversies of the last 10 years.
Leading cricket writer Mike Coward gives the first intimate eyewitness account of the Madras tied Test, the 1987...
by Dave Edwards, Sam Perry, Ian Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Welcome to the world of The Grade Cricketer. Described as the most original voice in cricket, The Grade Cricketer represents the fading hopes and dreams of every ageing amateur sportsman.
In this tell-all 'autobiography', The Grade Cricketer describes his cricketing career with unflinching...