Cricket books

Ian Chappell's cricket book collection auctioned off

The great cricketer's great cricket book collection has fetched Aus $8,000 for charity

03-Feb-2016•Daniel Brettig

The power that books hold

We may not be strangers to what players say, but we still tend to accord their words greater respect when they're on paper and between two covers

28-Oct-2014•Jonathan Wilson

The dark subtexts of cricket literature

Why reading acclaimed works from decades ago is often revealing

07-Aug-2014•Samir Chopra

A Derbyshire fan in Melbourne

How books, magazines and live scorecard updates allowed an Australian teenager to keep track of county cricket in the 1990s

20-Jun-2014•Russell Jackson

The generous lender of cricket magazines

Having a neighbour with a cornucopia of cricket literature can be a life-changing experience

06-Jun-2014•Samir Chopra

In praise of Margaret Hughes

The first woman to write to a high standard on the game was treated a bit like a circus freak when she appeared on the scene

30-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

What I read in 2013

There's a surge for immediacy in the modern media but sports books, especially cricket ones, help you slow down

03-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

The art of Bishan Bedi in prose

Suresh Menon's biography on the great Indian left-arm spinner is essential reading for all young tweakers

24-Nov-2013•V Ramnarayan

The little cricket magazine that endured

The ABC Cricket Book was a faithful companion to generations of Australian kids growing up with the game

20-Nov-2013•Russell Jackson

The man behind the top hat

Rupert Bates, writing in Wisden India, charts the history of Eric Ravilious, the man who gave the Wisden Almanack its iconic engraving

02-Oct-2013

Using cricket to tell India's story

James Astill, author of the Great Indian Tamasha, speaks to the Wall Street Journal about the impact of cricket in India

19-Sep-2013

What autobiographies tell us

Each era of cricket gets the autobiographies that reflect its culture. So what are the current crop of cricketers saying?

17-Sep-2013•Jon Hotten

Whither the great cricket novel?

Cricket fiction has not really floated my boat. Who needs made-up heroes when the real-life ones are so wonderful?

10-Sep-2013•Samir Chopra

A tale of two Ashes books

Two college professors, of politics and philosophy, in two continents, connect through their common love of cricket

28-Aug-2013•Samir Chopra

The grand online cricket library

We're privileged to be living at a time when there is such a wealth of cricket writing online

02-Jul-2013•Samir Chopra

The life and times of Dicky Rutnagur

26-Jun-2013

CMJ and a lesson in reporting on cricket

His book on England's victorious tour of Australia in 1986-87 entertained a ten-year-old and taught him the value of writing on just the sport

24-Jun-2013•Jonathan Wilson

A complicated colossus of Kiwi cricket

Martin Crowe comes across as intense and angry in his latest book, Raw, but appears laidback when you meet him

23-Jun-2013•Paul Ford

Chronicles of the ghost-writer

In a piece in Man's World magazine, Sharda Ugra shares her experience of being a ghost-writer on two cricket biographies - John Wright's Indian Summers and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.

18-Jun-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Patrick Eagar: cricket's visual poet

For fans who grew up before cricket was available ubiquitously through television, the photographer's work holds special meaning

11-Jun-2013•Samir Chopra

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