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Suresh Menon on cricket books
The artist known as Jack Russell
Jan 17, 2010: The eccentric England wicketkeeper spent rainy days and time on the bench sketching and painting. Two books chronicle his art
Suresh Menon
Dec 13, 2009: The Master's autobiography provides glimpses of a long-ago time that is strikingly similar (and not) to ours
Suresh Menon
Trescothick, Gimblett and the black wings of depression
Nov 1, 2009: Two Somerset players, generations apart, have had their struggles with mental illness form the subject of two fine books
Suresh Menon
Oct 18, 2009: A doctor, an air-force man, and 10 great players bring a childhood back to life
Suresh Menon
Oct 4, 2009: Fingleton was possibly the finest cricketer-writer ever
Suresh Menon
Sep 20, 2009: Ronald Mason used to worship cricketers as a boy, and wrote excellent prose on them as a man
Suresh Menon
Sep 6, 2009: Archie Jackson, who was born 100 years ago, was the Keats of cricket in more ways than one
Suresh Menon
Aug 23, 2009: In praise of a cricketer who made the transition from player to first-rate cricket writer with ease
Suresh Menon
Aug 9, 2009: Brearley, Ranji, EM Rose, and the art of captaincy
Suresh Menon
Jul 26, 2009: Frank Tyson has been among our best analysts of players' temperament and what made them tick
Suresh Menon
Jun 28, 2009: Two of the greatest books on one of the greatest allrounders ever
Suresh Menon
Jun 14, 2009: Celebrating Cardus' evocations of cricket's premier contest
Suresh Menon
May 31, 2009: A businessman, a soldier, a lavishly talented cricketer: Stanley Jackson embodied one of cricket's greatest ages
Suresh Menon
May 17, 2009: English and Australian players have not been shy when it comes to writing their life stories; not so the Indians
Suresh Menon
May 3, 2009: On the wealth of writing about the most storied cricket ground there is
Suresh Menon
Apr 19, 2009: On PG Wodehouse's cricket connection
Suresh Menon
Apr 5, 2009: Edmund Blunden's Cricket Country laments the passing of an age and revels in the timelessness of the game
Suresh Menon
Mar 22, 2009: In which your columnist dishes out some handy book-hunting advice
Suresh Menon
Feb 22, 2009: Ramachandra Guha is a polymath who happens to write superbly on cricket
Suresh Menon
Feb 8, 2009: On India's dominance of cricket, and a book that tells of a plan to thwart it
Suresh Menon
'The most complete fast bowler I've seen'
Allan Donald on one of the bowlers he found intimidating: the relentless Wasim Akram
Monty's haul, and keeper-captains
Ask Steven: Also, most Tests at Lord's, the Don's drop, Olympic gold stadium, and Mandela the cricketer
'Would you want to face Finn?'
Switch Hit: Jonathan Harris-Bass and team talk about England's win at Lord's, 4am Twitter antics, and the week in county cricket
'We've got a good bowling attack for English conditions'
Mohammad Hafeez's resurgence, after three years in the international wilderness, symbolises that of his team
Cricket Sadist Hour: Mark Butcher, Iain O'Brien and Jarrod Kimber discuss why Broad can be great or garbage, and, how Root looks worse topless than Compton
Pollard sledges Watson, Dravid is angry
Plays of the day from the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai
A talent that didn't know its own worth
Sreesanth wasn't the most likeable team-mate or opponent, but he had skill beyond doubt, which we might have seen the last of
Even at the height of his success with the national side, Sreesanth was a lonely cricketer who felt hard done by
Unfortunate Sunrisers let match slip away
For 36 overs, Sunrisers painstakingly built a position of strength only for one terrible over to spoil it for them
A time for anger, a time for action
Out of the shattered lives of three young men caught up in allegations of fraud, newer and stronger players must emerge
Even at the height of his success with the national side, Sreesanth was a lonely cricketer who felt hard done by
Dravid and the art of T20 captaincy (56)
Despite a small squad bereft of big names, Rajasthan Royals' captain has churned out win after win
Anderson's magic not to be missed (44)
None of the other three England bowlers with 300 Test wickets - or many other of the game's finest swing merchants - could have bowled better than James Anderson at Lord's
Pollard sledges Watson, Dravid is angry (43)
Plays of the day from the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai
"Minimise sixes" - Two words sum up farcical contest (40)
The eight-over dash between Bangalore and Chennai was as close as cricket played on the field can get to cricket played on smartphone apps
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