Suresh Menon

Why does the world insist that left-hand batsmen are naturally elegant and graceful?

Ramachandra Guha is a polymath who happens to write superbly on cricket

One of India's finest batsmen looks back at his career in the game

On India's dominance of cricket, and a book that tells of a plan to thwart it

GD Martineau's writing was about the journey, not the destination

Aakash Chopra's account of a season in Indian first-class cricket has insights, immediacy, honesty, and is remarkably free of bitterness

An Australian historian who produced a classic on Indian cricket and one on a fast-bowling legend

On the evolution of the cricket obituary

How to distil over a century of cricket literature into half a bookshelf's worth? A recap of our series on recommended cricket literature

The ranks of players turned writers worth reading are disappointingly thin

How does one define greatness in an innings?

Marqusee places cricket's evolution in a historical perspective and reveals the inevitability of the changes the sport has gone through in recent times

Kumble reduced bowling to its essentials, like an artist who simplifies but still retains the meaning of his work

Ed Smith is among the most intelligent and articulate interpreters of sport going

Coward's book played a significant part in demystifying the subcontinent for Australian cricketers and cricket watchers

There's a wide range of humorous cricket writing - from Berkmann to Hollowood to Johnston

Why the man who now holds the record for the most runs in Tests is two batsmen in one

Thirty-five years ago John McKenzie opened a bookshop in Surrey that has since grown to be a mecca for collectors of cricket titles

In an attempt to separate cricket reality from myth, Derek Birley ruthlessly questions, if not busts outright, many of the game's idyllic beliefs

Perhaps Bradman's farewell was all the more memorable for being unspectacular