Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell

Chappell the Indian

May 5, 2012: The former India coach's flaw was not that he was too Australian, as this book reveals

CMJ: A Cricketing Life

The covers are off CMJ

Apr 14, 2012: The doyen of English cricket writing reveals more of himself in his memoirs than might have been expected

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2012

'India, your sport needs you'

Apr 11, 2012: Wisden has a new editor and Lawrence Booth has set the tone with an Almanack that thunders out

We'll Get 'Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire cricket and the Century That Changed Everything

The real men of Yorkshire

Apr 8, 2012: A new survey of seven northern England cricketers is also an exploration of British culture, history and manners in the 20th and 21st centuries

Shaker: Run maker, Wicket taker

A brave but incomplete story

Apr 1, 2012: Lisa Sthalekar tackles the difficult topic of depression with maturity and candour in her autobiography, but fails to use the same rigour when discussing the rest of her career

Pakistan: A Personal History

How a cricket hero went political

Jan 28, 2012: What influence did the game have on where Imran Khan is today? A new book attempts to tell all

The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket

Cape crusaders

Jan 22, 2012: Pathbreaking figures from over a century of Western Province cricket fill the pages of a vital new reference work

The Breaks are Off

A lad's brags and gags

Jan 15, 2012: Graeme Swann's autobiography has plenty of jolly japes but not too much else besides

I Was There: Memoirs of a Cricket Administrator

No fence-sitting, no editing

Jan 8, 2012: Jaywant Lele's book about his life and times at the BCCI has some telling anecdotes. Too bad it's so poorly written

Champions... About Bloomin' Time

The 77-year itch

Dec 18, 2011: Lancashire ended their long wait for the County Championship in September. Two journalists who watched every ball tell how it was done

Out of the Blue

Behind the Rajasthan fairy tale

Dec 11, 2011: Aakash Chopra tells the story of the 2010-11 Ranji champions with insight, warmth and attention to detail

Australia: Story of a Cricket Country

The journey that made Oz

Nov 20, 2011: A collection of essays and photographs that brings new perspectives to bear on the country's cricket

Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography

Fiery, contradictory, all-too-human Fred

Nov 12, 2011: Trueman's latest biographer does a better job of fleshing out his subject than his more illustrious predecessors - perhaps because he didn't know him as well

Watto

What Watson learnt

Oct 23, 2011: The Australia allrounder's account of how he overcame injury to become integral to his side gives you the story, but the telling is not spectacular

Bishan: Portrait of a Cricketer

The many facets of Bedi

Oct 16, 2011: Suresh Menon's biography does justice to most aspects of one of cricket's more legendary larger-than-life characters

Shoaib Akhtar: Controversially Yours

Shoaib sells the drama

Oct 8, 2011: The furores artfully drummed up to hawk this book might obscure that it's a cracking read. More's the pity

Australian Autopsy

Argus it ain't

Sep 10, 2011: A review of the last Ashes by a fan (and a sort of expert)

Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals

The last of his kind

Aug 21, 2011: The warm and engaging life story of a man who accomplished the rare feat of playing cricket and football for England

Twirlymen

Nuts, bolts and spin

Jul 23, 2011: Amol Rajan's history of spin bowling is often refreshingly procedural

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack reprints

Wallowing in affordable nostalgia

Jul 17, 2011: Willows' high-quality reprints of old Almanacks continue to allow the ordinary enthusiast to visit the past

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