Review

Peter Roebuck writes with the authority of a former player, and the occasional whimsy of someone who can see, most of the time, that cricket is a game

For Panesar, everything beyond the day-to-day business of preparing for cricket, playing cricket and recovering from playing cricket is pretty much irrelevant - including, presumably, his book

While clearly a British-oriented product, virtually all of cricket life is there in this primer for young fans

EW Swanton reviews Assault On The Ashes by Christopher Martin-Jenkins

A classic example of the old-fashioned cricket biography: polite, respectful and enthusiastic by turn, with none of the intrusiveness of contemporary biography

To a generation, Trueman was Yorkshire cricket (English cricket, for that matter) and this book offers an easygoing trawl through his life and times

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For "the person who knows of Wisden as the Universal Source, but might never have troubled to browse in it"

Fans will enjoy reliving Lara's triumphs, and researchers will find this is a useful first draft of the biography of one of cricket's greatest enigmas

As coaching books go, this one is like a sturdy forward defence

A worthy, reasonably priced reference on world cricket

Gillian Reynolds reviews Fatty Batter - How Cricket Saved My Life (Then Ruined It) by Michael Simkins

International Cricket Captain III, the updated version of the successful management-style simulation, is hitting the shelves this month and brings a host of challenges

Jai Arjun Singh on a collection of self-aware, passionate fan's notes

Shane Warne is used to taking centre stage in Adelaide ... only this time he's on the other side of the River Torrens. And it's not actually him, either

Martin Williamson reviews More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years by John Major

A review of Pundits from Pakistan: On Tour with India, 2003-04 by Rahul Bhattacharya

A review of Paul Smith's autobiography, Wasted?

A review of cricket books on beer, verse and John Arlott