Cricket books

Recommended Books

Cricket

Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by Ed Smith.
Fascinating comparison between the two sports written by a Cambridge graduate and newly capped England batsman.
Botham's Century: my 100 great cricketing characters by Ian Botham with Peter Hayter.
Interesting stories for Beefy's fans
Men For All Seasons: how Australia shattered England's Ashes dream by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Well written account of the 2001 Ashes series
Shane Warne: My Autobiography
Insight into the life of the world's greatest spinner
The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley
A Classic Cricket book. This reissue has a new foreword by film director Sam Mendes, providing an fascinating differnet viewpoint on the subject of teamwork, and a new chapter asserting Brearley's view that captaincy is an academic topic.
Bradman's Best by Roland Perry
Ineresting stimulus for debate. A must for fans of The Don
The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the making of modern cricket by Gideon Haigh
The life of the first great Australian Cricketer
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack: 2002 Graeme Wright (editor).
The latest edition of the ultimate cricketing book.
Playfair Cricket Annual 2002 by Bill Frindall
Know the Game: Cricket by the Marylebone Cricket Club
Part of the "Know the Game" series. It provides the key rules and skills of cricket.
Jargonbusting: an Analysts' Guide to Test Cricket by Simon Hughes
The 'Analyst' from Channel 4's test match coverage, has transferred his slot of Jargonbusting from the television coverage. An ideal introduction of cricketing language to someone who is new to the game.