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A recap of our series on recommended cricket literature http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369211.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369211.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Frith's history of fast bowling is encyclopaedic, but also fittingly brisk and concise http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/379892.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/379892.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Rosenwater's books lacks Bradman's input - maybe that's why it's the best of the biographies of the great man http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369983.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369983.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Leo McKinstry provides a balanced, nuanced view of one of cricket's most complex characters http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/376815.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/376815.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Marqusee places cricket's evolution in a historical perspective and reveals the inevitability of the changes the sport has gone through in recent times http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/362231.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/362231.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Cardus may not have been the best cricket writer ever, but his autobiography certainly is the best-written cricket book of them all http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369975.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369975.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Coward's book played a significant part in demystifying the subcontinent for Australian cricketers and cricket watchers http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/375067.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/375067.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Gideon Haigh's biography of Iverson painstakingly unearths the story of a talented misfit http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/374301.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/374301.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Reading David Foot's warm, conversational profiles of cricketers is like sharing in the camaraderie of a dressing room http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/365032.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/365032.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT A perceptive, prescient look at West Indies cricket and its decline http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/343037.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/343037.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In an attempt to separate cricket reality from myth, Derek Birley ruthlessly questions, if not busts outright, many of the game's idyllic beliefs http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370300.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370300.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In his writing Robertson-Glasgow always toiled for the right word and the arresting simile, evoking a world of grace and ease http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370273.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370273.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Unlike far too many cricket writers, Johnson refuses to take the game too seriously - and thank goodness for that http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360490.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360490.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Alan Ross is often classed as a cricket belletrist - with good reason. And this book is among his finest works http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361075.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361075.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Wodehouse didn't write too much on the game, but what there is is an unalloyed delight http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360708.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360708.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In this narrative of the 1996 World Cup, context means more than the final wicket http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355954.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355954.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Arlott wasn't perfect and this book, by his son, readily admits so http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360695.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/360695.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Cardus' account of the 1936-37 Ashes tour gives rein to his desire to write about more than just the cricket http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355545.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355545.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT An admirable attempt to "tell the full history of the game" http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/353794.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/353794.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Serious scholarship and unflagging zest make this biography one of cricket's best life stories http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361604.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361604.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT