Nov 24, 2013

The art of Bishan Bedi in prose

The Cordon: Suresh Menon's biography on the great Indian left-arm spinner is essential reading for all young tweakers

Nov 20, 2013

The little cricket magazine that endured

The Cordon: The ABC Cricket Book was a faithful companion to generations of Australian kids growing up with the game

Oct 2, 2013

The man behind the top hat

Cricinfo: Rupert Bates, writing in Wisden India, charts the history of Eric Ravilious, the man who gave the Wisden Almanack its iconic engraving

Sep 19, 2013

Using cricket to tell India's story

Cricinfo: James Astill, author of the Great Indian Tamasha, speaks to the Wall Street Journal about the impact of cricket in India

Sep 17, 2013

What autobiographies tell us

The Cordon: Each era of cricket gets the autobiographies that reflect its culture. So what are the current crop of cricketers saying?

Sep 10, 2013

Whither the great cricket novel?

The Cordon: Cricket fiction has not really floated my boat. Who needs made-up heroes when the real-life ones are so wonderful?

Aug 28, 2013

A tale of two Ashes books

The Cordon: Two college professors, of politics and philosophy, in two continents, connect through their common love of cricket

Jul 2, 2013

The grand online cricket library

The Cordon: We're privileged to be living at a time when there is such a wealth of cricket writing online

Jun 26, 2013

The life and times of Dicky Rutnagur

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Jun 25, 2013

CMJ and a lesson in reporting on cricket

The Cordon: His book on England's victorious tour of Australia in 1986-87 entertained a ten-year-old and taught him the value of writing on just the sport

Jun 23, 2013

A complicated colossus of Kiwi cricket

The Cordon: Martin Crowe comes across as intense and angry in his latest book, Raw, but appears laidback when you meet him

Jun 18, 2013

Chronicles of the ghost-writer

Cricinfo: In a piece in Man's World magazine, Sharda Ugra shares her experience of being a ghost-writer on two cricket biographies - John Wright's Indian Summers and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.

Jun 11, 2013

Patrick Eagar: cricket's visual poet

The Cordon: For fans who grew up before cricket was available ubiquitously through television, the photographer's work holds special meaning

May 13, 2013

The legend of Cardus lives on

The Cordon: Neville Cardus' writing is alive, full of daring and almost novelistic observation. Cricket writing owes him a debt of gratitude

May 3, 2013

Notes from editors, past and present

Cricinfo: In Wisden India, six editors of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack share their thoughts on what it means to be a Wisden editor.

May 2, 2013

Who'd want to be a medium pacer in the IPL?

The Cordon: This Beige Brigade team discuss Matt Horne's new coaching role, CLR James' Beyond a Boundary, hear from Tony Blain about the indigenous Australian cricketer Eddie Gilbert, and chat about latest goings on in the IPL

Apr 30, 2013

The pleasure of reading Ten Great Innings

The Cordon: Ralph Barker's first book on cricket, written in 1964, is a curious one, of indefinite genre. But as a record of history, it does its job

Apr 20, 2013

Mumbai's cricketing treasure trove in need of revival

Cricinfo: The Kanga Memorial Library at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai is fighting a battle for its survival

Apr 14, 2013

Wisden: still relevant, 150 years on

Cricinfo: Ted Corbett, in the Hindu, says in these days of rapid-fire Twenty20 and so many websites dedicated to cricket, Wisden might not be really necessary, but in traditional cricket circles it still has time to live

Apr 11, 2013

Cricket writing faces up to the game's dark side

Cricinfo: In the Guardian, John Crace reviews the five best cricket books of the year for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack