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Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Cricket

by Brian Levison

This essential companion for all cricket lovers documents the illustrious history of the gentleman's game. It is crammed full of fascinating feats, sticky wickets and intriguing trivia, so even if you don't...


All in a Day's Cricket: An Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing

by Brian Levison

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...


The Victory Tests

by Mark Rowe

One minute before 7pm on Tuesday, May 22, 1945 a packed Lord’s roared as Australia beat England in the last over of the first Victory Test. A fortnight after Victory in Europe, the result did not matter –...


The Rebel Tours

by Peter May

In 1968, cricket was at the forefront of global opposition to apartheid as the Basil D’Oliveira affair proved a watershed in the sporting boycott against South Africa. Upon the fall of that government 22 years...


The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cricket

by Rob Price

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cricket is the most comprehensive and uptodate cricketspecific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most...


The Shorter Wisden 2013: The Best Writing from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2013

by Bloomsbury Publishing

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the...


Cricket Banter

by Dan Whiting & Liam Kenna

Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Fact 50....


Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

by Michael Simkins

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he...


A Last English Summer: The Biography of a Cricket Season

by Duncan Hamilton

From matches played on a village green to the high-church splendour of Lord's, in A Last English Summer, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton preserves the 2009 cricket season, a seminal, convulsive time in...


Legends of the Baggy Green: Dubious behaviour and achievements from cricket's chequered history

by Alexander Buzo

New cover edition of Alex Buzo's commentary on cricket manners and mores, charting the rise of the game from disreputable gambling origins in the 19th century to its current status as a first-class game of the...


Thommo Speaks Out: The authorised biography of Jeff Thomson

by Ashley Mallett

Jeff Thomson, the fastest fast-bowler of all time, talks about his life before, during and after his illustrious test cricket career playing for Australia.


Cricket, A Very Peculiar History

by Jim Pipe

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,...


Test Match Special - 50 Not Out: The Official History of a National Sporting Treasure

by Peter Baxter

In 1957 a whole day's play of a Test Match was broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time with the slogan 'Don't miss a ball, we broadcast them all'.

This book celebrates 50 years of Test Match Special with...


The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832-1914

by Greg Ryan

It is generally forgotten that cricket rather than rugby union was the 'national game' in New Zealand until the early years of the twentieth century. This book shows why and how cricket developed in New Zealand...


Can Anyone Hear Me?: Testing Times with Test Match Special on Tour

by Peter Baxter

Test match special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in Jamaica. For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special,...


Cricket-Indo : The Story of an Indo-Pak One-Day Cricket Turf War

by K. L. Mohana Varma

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Cricket is considered a religion in the Indian sub-continent. The ambition of every mother in India is to make her son a national player, but only one in 1 billion succeeds.

Cricket-Indo tells the...


The Art of Losing: Why the Proteas Choke at the Cricket World Cup

by Luke Alfred

How is it possible that the Proteas have never won a single knockout match at a World Cup? Are our cricketers unable to think on their feet? Is it fair to call them 'chokers'? What can be done to win at last?...


Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars

by Mr Jack Williams

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


Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It

by Frank Duckworth & Tony Lewis

Name cricket’s most famous partnership nowadays and you can forget Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Statham and Trueman or Lillee and Thomson. Instead you have to turn to Duckworth and Lewis, the two statisticians who...


Out for a Duck: A Celebration of Cricketing Calamities

by Ian Valentine

Cricket is usually told from its viewpoint of the winners. Out for a Duck: A Celebration of Cricketing Calamities champions the unfortunate cricketers who made those victories possible. For every record knock...