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Five go off in a highlights package

Five go off in a highlights package

So what if England didn't win too much last summer? The video chronicle makes for compelling viewing

24-Jan-2009•Edward Craig

A year in the life

A year in the life

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

17-Jan-2009•Suresh Menon

Stats but no story

Stats but no story

Gulu Ezekiel's biography of Dhoni is a handy ready reckoner, but don't expect any insights into the book's subject

11-Jan-2009•Kanishkaa Balachandran

A legendary selection

A legendary selection

A year after he published a list of the top cricketers he played with, Shane Warne has expanded his sights

13-Dec-2008•Jarrod Kimber

Six balls, six sixes, one fascinating book

Six balls, six sixes, one fascinating book

Grahame Lloyd tells, grippingly, the story of one of the most celebrated overs in cricket

30-Nov-2008•Ivo Tennant

Same format, same class

Same format, same class

In its third edition now, Steven Lynch's book is a reliable and readable quick-reference tool for cricket over the next year

23-Nov-2008•Steven Price

The modest journeyman

The modest journeyman

A honest tale of a Welshman's cricket career via Swansea City football club

16-Nov-2008•Richard Thomas

Slowly fades the Don

Slowly fades the Don

A century after his birth the debate about Bradman and Australian identity rumbles on

09-Nov-2008•Stephen Fay

Dated data

Dated data

A book on allrounders that brings together well-known facts and stats

26-Oct-2008•Brydon Coverdale

Solid value

Solid value

The late Bob Woolmer brings the game's teaching manuals comprehensively up to date

19-Oct-2008•Vic Marks

Green and bland

Green and bland

Alastair Cook's autobiography offers little that's new or interesting

12-Oct-2008•Freddie Auld

Turning back the clock, affordably

Well-produced, pocket-friendly reprints of a couple of 1920s Wisdens as well as the first edition of the Green Lilly

05-Oct-2008•Martin Williamson

Coming to the party

Coming to the party

A readable jaunt round the cricket world by one of the game's leading younger writers

28-Sep-2008•Jonathan Rice

Subject missing

Subject missing

Too many rote match descriptions, too few insights

21-Sep-2008•Martin Williamson

Fatal obsession

Fatal obsession

Trescothick's neuroses are peerless and this book goes into great detail about them. Pity about the cricket

14-Sep-2008•Patrick Kidd

Tony's tale

Tony's tale

Why Lock was more than just a support act to Laker

07-Sep-2008•Martin Williamson

A journey, darkly

A journey, darkly

The backdrop to Joseph O'Neill's acclaimed new novel is New York's seedy cricket subculture, where the search for meaning is deceptively infectious, if ultimately futile

20-Jul-2008•Andrew Miller

Chick-lit meets crick-lit

Chick-lit meets crick-lit

A girl born in 1983 turns out to be the Indian team's lucky charm in a novel where cricket and Mills & Boon collide

13-Jul-2008•Sumana Mukherjee

The cap that became a crown

The cap that became a crown

How did the baggy green turn into an enduring symbol of Australian sporting excellence?

29-Jun-2008•Peter English

Harsh light from down under

Harsh light from down under

Just how poorly is cricket run in England? This hard-hitting new book has the sorry story

01-Jun-2008•Andrew Miller

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