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The artist known as Jack Russell

The artist known as Jack Russell

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

17-Jan-2010•Suresh Menon

Jack Hobbs and the golden age

Jack Hobbs and the golden age

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

13-Dec-2009•Suresh Menon

Trescothick, Gimblett and the black wings of depression

Trescothick, Gimblett and the black wings of depression

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

01-Nov-2009•Suresh Menon

Barker's bowlers

Barker's bowlers

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

18-Oct-2009•Suresh Menon

Jack of two trades

Jack of two trades

Fingleton was possibly the finest cricketer-writer ever

04-Oct-2009•Suresh Menon

Portraits of heroes

Portraits of heroes

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

20-Sep-2009•Suresh Menon

Poet of the willow

Poet of the willow

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

06-Sep-2009•Suresh Menon

Rowdy the chronicler

Rowdy the chronicler

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

23-Aug-2009•Suresh Menon

Lessons for leaders

Lessons for leaders

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

09-Aug-2009•Suresh Menon

The third T

The third T

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

26-Jul-2009•Suresh Menon

All Rhodes

All Rhodes

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

28-Jun-2009•Suresh Menon

Gold from the Ashes

Gold from the Ashes

Celebrating Cardus' evocations of cricket's premier contest

14-Jun-2009•Suresh Menon

Golden amateur

Golden amateur

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

31-May-2009•Suresh Menon

Where are the Indians?

Where are the Indians?

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

17-May-2009•Suresh Menon

Hallowed and much covered

Hallowed and much covered

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

03-May-2009•Suresh Menon

The other Plum

The other Plum

On PG Wodehouse's cricket connection

19-Apr-2009•Suresh Menon

The passionate poet

The passionate poet

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

05-Apr-2009•Suresh Menon

Where to get 'em

Where to get 'em

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

22-Mar-2009•Suresh Menon

One writer, many hats

One writer, many hats

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

22-Feb-2009•Suresh Menon

The piper's new master

The piper's new master

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

08-Feb-2009•Suresh Menon

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