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All in a Day's Cricket

An Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing

by Brian Levison, Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to happen - from creating a clearing in a Malaysian...
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by B. K. Chaturvedi
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

CRICKET: The game of kings, the king of games. Though it is an old saying, it is quite relevant, rather more apt even in the democratic world of today. In India cricket reigns supreme. Our “Little Master’s Gavasker and Tendulkar stands peerless in his popularity among all the sports-lovers...
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Benaud

An Appreciation

by Brian Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016

To generations Richie Benaud was an astute observer of cricket, a fixture of television coverage. Behind the public façade was a charming man whose modesty and firmness of opinion dictated that no one would write his official biography—and no friend of his should help an unofficial biographer. In...
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by Tom Hay
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

‘I am confident they play cricket in heaven. Wouldn’t be heaven otherwise, would it?’ Patrick Moore Bowl yourself over with this mini-collection of cricket humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the gentleman’s game.
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Lost Histories of Indian Cricket

Battles Off the Pitch

by Boria Majumdar
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country...
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Anyone but England

Cricket, Race and Class

by Mike Marqusee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

Anyone But England is a detailed exploration into the origins of cricket; the romance, cultural identity, hypocrisy, flaws of governance and glory of the game. Mike Marqusee, an American who fell in love with cricket when he moved to the UK in the 1970s, looks at the history of elitism and empire,...
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by Rick Holden & Dave Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011

Lancashire Cricket Club: Every Day of the Year is a chronological record of facts, figures and trivia that have occurred on every day of the year during the life of Lancashire Cricket Club and tells the story of Lancashire's long and eventful history. With individual diary entries for every day of...
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On Cricket

A Portrait of the Game

by Mike Brearley
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018

'A treasure of recollections and reactions, talking heroes, controversies and big themes' i paper 'Brearley is at his best in these quirky, delightful essays when he is exploring the human qualities of humbler players . . . Brearley's admiration for his friends' decency, craftsmanship and modesty...
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Cricket's Strangest Matches

Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricket

by Andrew Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

A fascinating collection of true stories about cricket's oddest matches - ranging from the bizarre to the downright hilarious. Drawn from the lengthy annals of the game's history, Cricket's Strangest Matches is a must for all cricket enthusiasts and for anyone interested in the history of the sport.Other...
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by Ian Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

The 71st edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2018. As Joe Root leads England towards his country's 1000th Test this summer, there are comprehensive Test match records and career records, as well as series records with this...
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by White, John
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

There is something for every cricket lover in "The England Cricket Miscellany". The England cricket team has a long and storied history, but this book is not exclusively a work of reference, or a compendium of lists, or a collection of biographies, or a compilation of trivia. It is a gloriously quirky...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

Long out of print, the late Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ humorous book The Cricketer Book of Eccentric Behaviour and Cricket Eccentric Eccentrics is at last available as an ebook. A noted cricket commentator, Editor of The Cricketer from 1980 and President of the Cricket Society from 1998 to 2008,...
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by Prasant
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015

Why not attempt winning team prediction for the upcoming Cricket World Cup matches? This book provides two sensational methods for doing this, and what's more? It gives the most accurate prediction every time. Only basis details, like Captain's birth date, are needed under this method. Cricket prediction...
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Whitewash to Whitewash

Australian Cricket's Years of Struggle and Summer of Riches

by Daniel Brettig
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Watching Warne, McGrath and Langer leave the field for the last time after the 2007 Ashes whitewash, Michael Hussey knew that life was going to get tough for the Australian cricket side. With these stars retiring and more to follow, he wondered how the team could ever recover. This is the inside...
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