Cricket

Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cricket was often the circuit-breaker Harry and his team needed after the tension of operations. He began a tradition of organising matches wherever he was sent, whether it...

Test your knowledge of cricket over a wide range of topics: not only run outs and centuries but also cricketers who share their names with film stars and animals - everything from 'Tipping the Scales' to 'Holy Orders'. There are 18 picture rounds -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947821425Author Roger KnightFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint J.W.McKenziePublisher J.W.McKenzieWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 159mm * 21mm

On the afternoon of 10 June 2018, Edinburgh became the centre of the cricketing world. Scotland's first-ever win over England not only proved the team's ability to go toe-to-toe with the best players on the planet, it also completed one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518475Author Frank BirbalsinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 445g

For most of his professional life Michael Parkinson has been a highly regarded sports journalist. This consistently entertaining collection of his best articles reminds us that his first love is cricket and the people who excel at it. His ambition to...

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Cricket. Here you'll find the essential elements - batsmen and bowlers past and present - that have left a lasting legacy on this great sport.As with chemical elements, these international personalities have been arranged...

Graeme Swann's transformation from international outsider to England's primary match-winner and undisputed best spin bowler in the world has been remarkably rapid. Within two years of his 2008 Test debut, he had become his country's most reliable bowler,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171674008Author Sunil GavaskarFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt...

The Cricket World Cup in 2019 was the first to be held in England for 20 years and expectations were high. It did not disappoint. Over six weeks and 48 matches it showcased the best that the one-day game has to offer, with compelling individual...

Beyond The Pavilion spans seventy years of social, regional and cultural history through the eyes of one of cricket's earliest Test match wayfarers, Barry Knight. As a ten-year-old, Barry saw Don Bradman's 1948 'Invincibles' at Lord's. His early days...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357765572Author Amrit MathurFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Westland SportPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912662128Author Colin BabbFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

*Paperback edition* The 158th edition of the most famous sports book in the world - published every year since 1864 - contains some of the world's finest sports writing, and reflects on an unprecedented year dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909245860Author Tatenda TaibuFormat PaperbackImprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin Books

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This book is an illustrated history of cricket in Wales, tracing the evolution of, and the fundamental role of the game in the culture and social history of the Principality. Indeed, cricket was the first team game to be played in Wales, with the first...

'A surprising gem' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 'In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone' the English judge Lord Denning famously wrote, in a case brought by someone who clearly disagreed with him. The case was just one example of how...

Ruling the World tells the enthralling story of the 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. From the early exchanges in the warm-up matches, up to the final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, tales of classic stature and previously untold gems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356994195Author Venkat SundaramFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Harper SportPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

THE DOTS WILL NOT BE JOINED is both a rich, sentimental memoir and a racy 'Compendium of Ideas'. It's about sport (mainly football and cricket) but it carries wise, sometimes cheeky diversions - snapshots into what makes us and what liberates us. The...

The Ashes may be the longest and fiercest sporting soap opera the world has known. The anticipation is always intense, expectations are high and, for England fans, disappointment is almost inevitable, as we usually lose. But it's a drug we can never kick...

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The year 2015 was a historic one for the England women's cricket team, their first full year as professional players and with every ball of their Ashes series live on television and radio. As the dramatic events of the summer unfolded, David Tossell was...

Alex Blackwell lived and breathed our national sport of cricket for thirty years.Starting as a kid, she spent her childhood and teen years on the field with her identical twin, Kate, who was equally devoted to the bat and ball. While both sisters went on...

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Cricket Book of the Year 2023 Jazbaa - Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotion In 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure...

Of Battenberg, Bombay and Blag is a blood, sweat and beers switch hit across the decades with first-hand accounts and opinion pieces on club cricket, Test matches, the Hundred and IPL. With a decade of club cricket under his belt, Vic Mills heads to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912183531Author J L NichollsFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint UK Book PublishingPublisher Consilience MediaWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

For more than four decades Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered over 250 Test matches, including six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, over fifty Ashes Tests and five World Cups. His distinctive...

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Black Swan Summer tells the extraordinary story of Western Australia's first season of Sheffield Shield cricket, when an unheralded group of unknown, unfashionable and inexperienced players won Australian cricket's biggest prize at their first attempt...

The story of a lifetime at the very centre of international cricket, from the most respected TV commentator in the game.Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set the standards for...

Here is the inside story of Fairfield Books: from its beginnings in the cricket coaching that the 45-year-old Stephen Chalke sought in the autumn of 1993 through the journeys around England and Wales that generated his first book 'Runs in the Memory' and...

Since Victorian times, the MCC had embraced the amateur ideal that cricket was more than a game. It was the very essence of camaraderie and good sportsmanship. Yet for all their evangelising, the game's privileged elite were part of a British...

A Corner of Every Foreign Field is an innovative and thought-provoking take on the history of cricket, looking beyond the scorecards to the pivotal issues of class, politics and imperialism that have shaped the game today. It charts how cricket has vied...

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 9781876498986Author Rick DarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ryan PublishingPublisher Ryan Publishing

In 2014, Kevin Pietersen's autobiography was one of the most talked about sporting media stories of the year, largely due to the shockwaves it sent through the cricketing establishment. Now, Kevin turns his focus to events on the pitch, offering his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956732170Author Rob KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Von Krumm PublishingPublisher Von Krumm PublishingWeight(grams) 800gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1968, Yorkshire County Cricket Club won a record 29th outright County Championship title. Blessed with the talents of Brian Close, Fred Trueman and Geoffrey Boycott, they dominated their opponents through sheer desire, skill and belief. It was a...