Print Run

The eccentric England wicketkeeper spent rainy days and time on the bench sketching and painting. Two books chronicle his art

The Master's autobiography provides glimpses of a long-ago time that is strikingly similar (and not) to ours

Two Somerset players, generations apart, have had their struggles with mental illness form the subject of two fine books

A doctor, an air-force man, and 10 great players bring a childhood back to life

Fingleton was possibly the finest cricketer-writer ever

Ronald Mason used to worship cricketers as a boy, and wrote excellent prose on them as a man

Archie Jackson, who was born 100 years ago, was the Keats of cricket in more ways than one

In praise of a cricketer who made the transition from player to first-rate cricket writer with ease

Brearley, Ranji, EM Rose, and the art of captaincy

Frank Tyson has been among our best analysts of players' temperament and what made them tick

Two of the greatest books on one of the greatest allrounders ever

Celebrating Cardus' evocations of cricket's premier contest

A businessman, a soldier, a lavishly talented cricketer: Stanley Jackson embodied one of cricket's greatest ages

English and Australian players have not been shy when it comes to writing their life stories; not so the Indians

On the wealth of writing about the most storied cricket ground there is

On PG Wodehouse's cricket connection

Edmund Blunden's Cricket Country laments the passing of an age and revels in the timelessness of the game

In which your columnist dishes out some handy book-hunting advice

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

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