Cricket category: 444 books

England's back-to-back Ashes victories, coupled with winning the 2010 World Twenty20, might give the impression that all is well in English cricket. But behind the headlines is another story: that of a county game struggling to cope with unprecedented levels of debt, a decline in membership and attendances,...

Jaico Cricketwallah SeriesFrom his appearance on the firmament as a 16-year-old, Tendulkar has been a beacon for the new India.‘When India won the Cricket World Cup in 2011, an abiding image from the celebrations was of the Indian cricket team carrying Sachin Tendulkar on their shoulders around Wankhede...

'I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar.' -Shane Warne This is cricket icon, Sachin Tendulkar's life story in his own words - his journey from a small boy with dreams to becoming a cricket god. His amazing story has now been turned into a major...

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "Bumble", the legendary SkySports cricket commentator who's one ball short of an over and delivers madcap moments galore in this ebullient, endearing and hilarious book. David "Bumble" Lloyd is a legend in our living rooms, a genuine...

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball...

Cricket is a gentleman's game, but the cricketing terms are both gentlemanly and ungentlemanly, for ever day new words or terms are invented by players and commentators.A layman might understand the words like bat, ball, four, sixer, out, batsman, bowler, etc. but when it comes to the...

Amateurs versus professionals - a social history and memoir of English cricket from 1953 to 1963. The inaugural Gentlemen v. Players first-class cricket match was played in 1806, subsequently becoming an annual fixture at Lord's between teams consisting of amateurs (the Gentlemen) and professionals...

Cricket has been the heartbeat of Mike Hussey's life since the age of 12, about the time that he found it more comfortable to bat lefthanded than right. He adores the game, analyses it, researches it and respects it. Described as Bradmanesque, Hussey is the fastest batsmen ever to reach 1000 test runs,...

The story of a lifetime at the very centre of international cricket, from the most respected TV commentator in the game. Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set the standards for others to follow and has witnessed all the...

When Michael Hussey glanced around the SCG dressing room in the first week of 2007 and saw Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer packing their Test kit for the final time, he knew instantly that life was about to get tougher for the Australian cricket team. How tough was not easy to say, but...

Former Australia captain Ian Chappell once said: 'An international coach is something the Australian team travels in around England.' It is a view that has plenty of subscribers. After all, by the time players reach first-class or certainly international level, surely they shouldn’t need...

In the summer of 1988 England began its Test series against the mighty West Indies with a draw at Trent Bridge. Defeated 5-0 in each of its last two series against the world’s most fearsome cricket team, for England simply to avoid defeat and stand up to perhaps the greatest fast bowling attack...

When England cricket captain Tony Greig announced that he intended to make the West Indies grovel, he lit a fire that burned as intensely as the sunshine of Britains long hot summer of 1976. Spurred on by what they saw as a deeply offensive remark by a white South African, Clive Lloyds touring team made...

Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging, and the humor behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Factor 50. Here we cover most aspects of cricket, as we speak with some of the finest, funniest, larger-than-life...