Suresh Menon

NS Ramaswami's rank among the more literary cricket writers is assured. It was only fitting he assumed the pen name he did

Wodehouse didn't write too much on the game, but what there is is an unalloyed delight

Bradman was supposed to be cold and aloof, but that's not how he came across to a pilgrim from India 15 years ago

The best books on fast bowling are written by those who haven't faced their subjects across a pitch

Up there with the Gavaskars and Tendulkars? Just where does India's gonzo opener stand in his country's batting pantheon?

Rumours of the death of cricket literature are highly exaggerated: Peter Roebuck is writing still

An admirable attempt to "tell the full history of the game"

Suresh Menon pays tribute to Ashok Mankad - a Ranji legend, an astute captain and an inspiration to many

Cricket writers' autobiographies come in all flavours

Cricket books for a desert island? Let the arguments begin

Like Yorkshire's greatest cricketers, JM Kilburn was not known for lightness of touch or flights of fancy

The tour was pure drudgery, but at least it produced one of the finest tour books written

The win that transformed Indian cricket sending it on an upswing that lasts to this day

It is only fitting that cricket should have inspired as much poetry as it has

Sujit Mukherjee's writings on the game had passion and precision in equal measure

Like his batting, the Don's book lacks flourishes, is exceedingly effective, and is easily the final word on cricket coaching

Cricket and writing are more closely bound together in the West Indies than elsewhere

Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote only two books on the game but they will last longer than many by designated cricket writers

Gerald Brodribb's study of cricket oddities looks at the game's laws through the prism of their background and provides both entertainment and information in the process

How some of the best known cricket quotes came to be