Stories from Cricket Books on Cricket Web
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Class of 59
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Sep 6, 2010
I bought this book from a dealer at Kent's ground more than a year ago, but because of other demands on my time didn't get round to reading it for several months. Once I did I was hooked. I should say at the outset I know nothing about the author. On the inside back page it says that at the time… Full Story »
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String Fellows - A Cycling Odyssey into Cricket
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Aug 23, 2010
This is the story, and an often inspiring one it is, of six cyclists, three guest riders, a rubber lizard called Larry and a piece of string. Colin Bateman was the Directeur Sportif, or tour organiser, of the ambitious project to cycle around England, calling at each of the eighteen county grounds. His group, or peloton in Tour de France terminology,… Full Story »
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Caught England Bowled Australia
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Aug 9, 2010
After missing out on reviewing Frith on Cricket Archie has been reading the veteran author's 1997 autobiography Full Story »
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A Last English Summer
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Jul 19, 2010
A leisurely stroll around a season's cricket has always been a popular choice for writers. Accounts of tours, the more so in the days before such visits became so truncated, could sometimes be as much like travel books as cricket books. In a slightly different vein a number of cricketers have, from time to time, published their season's diaries, taking their reader around the county circuit. A further variant on the theme that has emerged in recent years is the match by match account of the Champion County's season, usually appearing in time for the Christmas… Full Story »
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England's One Test Wonders
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Jul 12, 2010
I bought this at a modest price on an internet auction site a couple of years ago - and I must confess I was a little disappointed when it arrived. But if I had done some research on the book before committing to buy, I would have known that it is nowhere near… Full Story »
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Cutting Edge Cricket
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull Jun 21, 2010
From Australia comes this title, that aims to teach us all how to be just as successful as the Australian players pictured on the front cover and frequently inside. Nobody could disagree that Australia have been by some distance the outstanding international side of the last twenty years, so clearly their players and… Full Story »
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The Art of Captaincy
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull May 31, 2010
I grew up in the late 1970s and 1980s. I feel that my inherent sense of pessimism is a direct consequence of the regular, and ultimately traumatic, exposure to Australian cricket's weakest era. I have a strong memory of a team that was consistently dominated by the West Indies and, unlikely as it seems now, even comprehensively thrashed by New Zealand. Even more disturbingly, the side had an amazing capacity to lose matches from seemingly dominant positions. Much of my still evident psychological distress can probably be traced back to the 1981… Full Story »
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A Geordie All-Rounder
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull May 24, 2010
Malcolm Scott was one of the fortunate few who, in the days when it was possible to do so, played County Cricket in the summer and First Division football in the winter. He did not reach the very top of either sport, and his name is not one which will be recognised by many, but his autobiography, published in the autumn of his life, is a fascinating story and a… Full Story »
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Trophies and Tribulations: Forty Years of Kent Cricket
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull May 17, 2010
This book was of particular interest to me as, despite being a Surrey supporter of many years standing, I now live in Kent and regard them very much as my 'second' county. In fact even before I moved I was interested in Kent cricket simply because they happened to be one of the… Full Story »
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The Captains' Tale
Cricket Books on Cricket Web &bull May 3, 2010
The majority of bestselling books that proudly boast the supposed authorship of a superstar cricketer on the cover are rarely written by the actual cricketer. Normally, a ghost writer is brought in to churn out the actual text which is based upon interviews. I find it is comforting to read books that are… Full Story »
