Cricket

Tales of the Autistic Village Cricketer is the neurologically "different" slant of eye-opening, blunt, and frankly, funny collection of completely true memoirs that have happened in my cricketing life....

Most batters just do their best, yet the top players create art. It is physically impossible to face an 80mph delivery and track it with your eyes, yet the greatest batters do more than just watch the ball, they can see into the future.

Test cricket is on the cusp of its 150th anniversary. For the first time, Test Cricket: A History tells the full, gripping story of the players and stories that have shaped the game's evolution since 1877....

Sultan tells the story of cricket's greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its enduring survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world....

In an era of big-data, how are leaders in sport, business, politics and education supposed to use the power of this new tool productively? Hitting Against the Spin is an object lesson in how to use data and analytics to elucidate the science and structure of cricket....

Curious about the game of cricket? Start here....

An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics, Crickonomics will entertain and surprise all cricket lovers....

Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion for the game is at the fore on the BBC 's number one cricket podcast and 5Live show, Tailenders, which he co-presents with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson....

In How Not to Be a Cricketer, former England international and TV personality Phil Tufnell highlights the many potential pitfalls of a professional cricket career and provides a hilarious insight into how to avoid them and what happens when, like him, you don't....

From the William Hill Award-winning author of A Lot of Hard Yakka comes Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 12 Matches by Simon Hughes. A fast-paced, distinctive history of the iconic, 137-year-old cricketing rivalry between England and Australia.....

Sports writing at its most accomplished and evocative, confirming Duncan Hamilton's reputation as the finest contemporary chronicler of the game of cricket....

Fatty Batter is the story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket, from his earliest awkward days as a fat schoolboy, to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates....

After the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton transformed the broadcasting of the nation’s summer game into a national institution.

For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a book about leadership, judgement and decision-making—rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead the UK cricket team to international success....

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except…that's not a simple idea at all....

This isn't a book of life lessons. It's not going to tell you make your bed, or stand-up straight or any of that. There's no blueprint to follow here....

You Are the Team: 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go from Good to Great is not an audiobook just for you, but for every member of your team. It is a meaningful, practical, actionable, and enduring gift to your team and possibly to your entire organization....

From over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England—the world's oldest sporting rivalry—from the colonial era to the present day....

The editor of Wisden is an important personage. It is he who decides the policy of the Cricketers’ Bible, and cricketers the world over look to him to give a lead on all controversial problems....

Playing cricket in Germany in the 1930s was not always as...fraught. But it certainly had its moments....

The Ashes are on the line as England and Australia meet at Old Trafford in July 1961 for the fourth Test. For most of the match, England have their noses ahead – until a dramatic final day, of intensely fluctuating fortunes, as the tourists eventually storm to victory.