Cricket

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042910Author Stephen HillFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to...

The Wisden Collector's Guide is the definitive companion to one of the world's most important sporting publications. It begins with an overview of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, introducing the original John Wisdenand describing the history of the...

*Standard format paperback* The 156th edition of the most famous sports book in the world--published every year since 1864--contains some of the finest sports writing of the year and covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, making it the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956732156Author Dave WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Von Krumm PublishingPublisher Von Krumm PublishingWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Phil Tufnell, cricket legend and national treasure, has populated his very own Cricket Hall of Fame with a deliciously eclectic collection of cricket legends and offbeat characters, with joyful results.From boyhood heroes, to legendary team-mates, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392099564Author Boria MajumdarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & Schuster Publishers India Pvt LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Publishers India...

Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game? looks at the changing ethics of cricket, from its...

It is a book of three parts: comment; record; and delightful minutiae, which always brings the most cheer. - Mike Atherton, The Times The publication of Wisden is cricket's equivalent of the state opening of Parliament. It's another great edition. -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913568504Author Manoj BadaleFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street PublishingWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)...

A history of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.Book InformationISBN 9780752432120Author Andrew HignellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 172mm * 9mm

An illustrated edition of the classic book of cricketing advice.Foreword by former England Test cricketer and bestselling author Derek Pringle.The advice found in Don'ts for Cricketers was originally printed in 1906 and contains hundreds of snippets of...

The period from 1993 has been one of the most successful in the history of Glamorgan CCC, with both league and cup victories. This is the story of this wonderful period, told in the players' own words, and supported by superb photographs by Huw John. It...

The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover’s bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind. The 75th edition contains all the details of another full year of cricket at all levels.Book InformationISBN...

John Arlott, one of cricket's most revered commentators said of Farokh Engineer: "He finds both cricket and life fun; he laughs easily and his jokes are often very funny but he can be grave. His appeals are as loud as anyone's yet off the field he is...

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is-among other things-a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922810076Author Ken PiesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wilkinson PublishingPublisher Wilkinson Publishing

From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket - and often enraged them on the field of play. The wicketkeeper, known as his...

As a sport, Cricket has a reputation for sometimes being slow to embrace change and this seems to be true of the early years of local Bristol cricket. With evidence of matches being played in 1752, the movement towards some form of organisation...

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Compelling story of US cricket in the 21st century - a game that was once a proud part of American sports, lost its way and is now returning.Cricket in America? Usually the conjunction of those words is greeted with disbelief. Most Americans, if they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517482Author Mark RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 952Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Deadly is the first-ever biography of Kent and England cricketing legend Derek Underwood. It includes exclusive interviews with friends and team-mates.From renowned cricket author Mark Peel, winner of the Cricket Society Award and twice shortlisted at...

Brian Close was one of the most remarkable characters of post-war English cricket. Known for his great bravery against fast bowling and for his fearless close fielding, he led both Yorkshire and England with great success, yet in controversial...

Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and sport has been little explored. Sport, Literature, Society looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging...

Since Test cricket began in 1877, there have been over three thousand players representing their countries in Test matches. World XIs tackles the daunting task of choosing the best of the best and coming up with the greatest team from each era...

'[a] compelling book... Test cricket is hanging on. It's a worry' - Graham Gooch'Huw Turbervill is the ultimate passionate polemicist for the Test format with a zeal that manages to weave both George Orwell and Basil Fawlty into his arguments' - David...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202260Author Mike HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 120g

The first Australian cricket tour to India possesses an inherent intrigue that, for inexplicable reasons, has fallen into obscurity. Megan Ponsford rectifies this through her investigation of the uneasy relationships between Australia, British India and...

Cricket is a very old game in Scotland - far older than football, a sport which sometimes exercises a baleful, obsessive and deleterious effect on the national psyche. Cricket goes back at least as far as the Jacobite rebellions and their sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785072642Author Dr. Dan DiaperFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Derbyshire County Cricket Club has had its share of big names and fascinating stories down the years. In Their Own Words recounts the county's history, ever since the Second World War, through the eyes and words of the men who helped create it. Beginning...

After England's cricketers famously lost to Australia at the Oval in August 1882 a mock obituary notice was published in the "Sporting Times", announcing that 'the body [of English cricket] would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia'. It was this...

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to umpire a match in which the bowlers wore top hats, and gentlemen thought that wearing pads and gloves was beneath their dignity? 'The Meadow at Chapel Hill Cross' takes you back to the opening of...

Born in Bolton tells the history of the 38 first-class cricketers, including 12 Test Players, to have been born in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The first was Walter Hardcastle, born in Great Bolton in 1843, while the most recent are Matt Parkinson...

Sussex and England superstar Maurice Tate's story is one of triumph and fame, controversy and tragedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the all-rounder was the world's most popular cricketer, famed for his brilliant bowling and broad smile - unlike his infamous...

This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated"Beyond a Boundary . ...

'Punchy's Hampshire Years' tells the story of Alan Rayment's life from 1949 to 1959, the years when he spent his summers inside the game of cricket. The book, following on from 'Punchy through the Covers', was to be the second of a three-volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043412Author Andrew HignellFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove