Cricket category: 444 books
by Gideon Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records.
In life, Trumper was Australia's first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
If you want to learn how to play cricket then check this "How To Play Cricket" guide.
In this step-by-step guide, you will reap the following benefits:
- Learn the basics of playing cricket.
- Learn the areas of the cricket field.
- Become good in the fielding position in the ground.
- Learn...
Second XI
Cricket in its Outposts
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
As the world's second most popular sport, cricket is much richer and more diverse than many realise. Globally, passionate players give up holidays, time with loved ones and hard-earned money to achieve the extraordinary and play for their country. Afghanistan, whose captain grew up on a refugee camp,...
The Strangers Who Came Home
The First Australian Cricket Tour of England
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest, and arguably the most keenly-contested rivalry, in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen.
In...
Uncertain Corridors
Writings on Modern Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Five years ago, Australia's cricket team led the world, holding the World Cup, the Ashes, and the Border-Gavaskar and Sir Frank Worrell trophies. Today, it languishes in mid-table and cricket itself is regarded as in crisis.
How did we go so wrong?
Gideon Haigh has had a front row seat on that decline...
My A-Z of Cricket
A personal celebration of our glorious game
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019
Legendary cricket broadcaster Henry Blofeld takes the reader on a journey from A-Z through the world of cricket.
In his trademark charming style, Blowers goes through the alphabet, explaining some of the puzzling cricket terminology and regaling his favourite anecdotes from his fifty years...
The Miracle Match
Chappell, Lillee, Richards and the most electric moment in Australian Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One game of cricket. Five all-time greats. A battle for the ages.Greg Chappell, Viv Richards, Jeff Thomson, Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee the best of the best in international cricket in the 1970s. Imagine a match that pitted them against each other; imagine The Miracle Match.In 1976,...
Sir Curtly Ambrose
Time to Talk
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Sir Curtly Ambrose is one of the most famous cricket players of all time. He is also notorious for his silence. Now, for the first time, Curtly will tell his story. One of the leading – and most lethal - fast bowlers of all time, Curtly Ambrose played 98 Tests and 176 One Day Internationals for...
by Dan Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Cricket is a game that has always attracted mavericks and characters. Cantankerous batsman, lethal bowlers, criminal wicket keepers, and philandering fielders feature as Dan from The Middle Stump looks at the good, the bad, and the potentially dangerous of the cricket world. Dan has interviewed some...
by William Beldham
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This Cognito Guide is for the young club or school cricketer aspiring to become an opening batsman. It focuses on how to prepare to face the opposition when your team depends on you and all eyes are on you. It discusses strategies for staying in, for getting off the mark and how to progress to build...
Legends of the Baggy Green
Dubious behaviour and achievements from cricket's chequered history
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Full of brigands and bogans, legends and sledgends, Legends of the Baggy Green is an acerbic commentary on the codes and manners of cricket behaviour. Part social history, part blooper tape, this book takes sports comedy back to where it all began.
The sins of modern cricket-sledging, chucking,...
Cardus on Cricket
A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings.
Chosen and...
The Good Murungu?
A Cricket Tale of the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Former county cricketer and one-time England Test batsman Alan Butcher was looking for a new challenge after leaving his job coaching Surrey County Cricket Club. A phone call out of the blue from a Zimbabwean great alerted him to the possibility of coaching the nation's cricket team. His three years...
by Jim Pipe
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In 'Cricket, A Very Peculiar History' Jim Pipe uniquely explores one of the second biggest spectator sport on the planet. From the hazy bat-and-ball origins of the game to the biggest celebrity players of today, this book is a fascinating insight into the popular sport. Filled to the brim with quirky...