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  • Playing With Fire

    Nasser Hussain was acclaimed as England's best cricket captain since Mike Brearley. Under his leadership, a side more famous for its batting collapses and ability to seize defeat from the jaws of victory discovered its backbone. With coach Duncan Fletcher he put some steel into the side; they became a difficult team to beat.Hussain wore his heart on his sleeve: railing against complacency, defying ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Farokh Engineer

    From the Far Pavilion

    Born in Bombay in 1938, Farokh Engineer quickly displayed a prodigious talent with both bat and gloves. Selected to play for the India Starlets in the late 1950s, by 1967 he was signed with Lancashire. Farokh was instrumental in both the renaissance of the Red Rose County's fortunes and in the forging of the Indian team into one of the major forces in world cricket. With a foreword by John Major ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Play Batting

    How to Play Batting is specially written for the young aspiring cricketers and sportsperson who wish to learn, develop and sharp their batting skills which is an integral aspects of cricket sport. Throughout the book, the batting skills, tactics, techniques, batting rules accompanied by latest court dimensions and measurements are explained in a lucid form and in simple colloquial English along ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Wisden Anthology 1978-2006

    Cricket's Age of Revolution

    by Stephen Moss ...
    A definitive tome, essential to all cricket book collectors and Wisden readers.In the early 1980s Wisden published four anthologies that celebrated the best of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack stretching back to its first edition in 1864. Edited by the respected jazz musician, raconteur and cricket-lover, Benny Green, these volumes proved very popular. Wisden readers have long awaited a fifth, updated ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • How to Catch a Cricket Match

    Series series The Ginger series
    How do you deliver a "googly" or make chin music? What are a beamer, a flipper, a corker, and a jaffa? What do a bunny, a cherry, a dolly and a royal golden duck have to do with sports? Readers will discover the answers to these questions and learn much more about the noble sport of cricket in this entertaining and enlightening book. Written by a passionate player and cricket-watcher, the book ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legends of the Baggy Green

    Dubious behaviour and achievements from cricket's chequered history

    Full of brigands and bogans, legends and sledgends, Legends of the Baggy Green is an acerbic commentary on the codes and manners of cricket behaviour. Part social history, part blooper tape, this book takes sports comedy back to where it all began.The sins of modern cricket-sledging, chucking, match-fixing, plus the heinous practice of putting the ball in the freezer to make it bounce higher - are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chappelli Speaks Out

    Chappelli a great competitor on and off the cricket field. Loves his cricket and he's not afraid to share his opinions of the game. His thoughts are always well worth reading.'Mark TaylorWith Chappelli it is either black or white, but always passionate.'Ian HealyIn 1959, a sixteen-year-old Ian Chappell was told to write down his cricket ambitions on a piece of paper and carry it with him always as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Arm-ball to Zooter

    A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket

    What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ashes

    by Ken Piesse ...
    Australia v England.The Legendary urn. Grace, Bradman, Warne, Bodyline and the World Series breakaway . . . The touchstones of the Ashes loom large in the consciousness of two proud and competitive nations. This book joins the dots in a comprehensive account of the Ashes tests, from their informal beginnings in the 1860s to the already legendary Australian 5-0 reclamtion of 2007. The Ashes reviews ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mr Cricket

    Cricket has been the heartbeat of Mike Hussey's life since the age of 12, about the time that he found it more comfortable to bat lefthanded than right. He adores the game, analyses it, researches it and respects it. Described as Bradmanesque, Hussey is the fastest batsmen ever to reach 1000 test runs, and he certainly knows a thing or two about how to put willow on leather. Since first donning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • If Better is Possible

    John Buchanan is perhaps the most successful cricket coach in history a remarkable achievement given that when he was appointed in October 1999 to replace Geoff Marsh, many people doubted him due his lack of Test level experience. He proved the critics wrong. Along with current captain Ricky Ponting, John has led the Aussie team to unprecedented success, including a worldrecord 16 consecutive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • One of a Kind

    The Doug Walters Story

    From the moment he first stepped onto a test pitch, cricket fans around the world were dazzled by Doug Walters' red-blooded strokes, his immaculate timing and his great enjoyment of the game. But they also loved him because he refused to be a star. He drank, he smoked, he loved a punt. The boy from Dungog was one of us.In One of a Kind , the man many regard to be one of Australia's greatest ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Future of Cricket: The Rise of 20Twenty Cricket

    by John Buchanan ...
    An insiders account of the development and launch of the tournament that may forever change the face of international cricket. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Inside the Box

    My Life with Test Match Special

    by Peter Baxter ...
    A celebration of three decades of cricket and a unique insight into the world of radio and broadcasting. Test Match Special is both a sporting and broadcasting institution that has become synonymous with the British summertime. Since its first live broadcast back in 1957 it has proudly lived up to its original slogan 'Don't miss a Ball, we broadcast them all'. During much of this time the man ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Best XI

    Who'd make it into the best England team ever? And you can chose anyone, regardless of when they might have played. Would W.G. Grace be playing alongside Denis Compton and David Gower? Or Kevin Pietersen?The debate could be endless, so who better to make the selection than Geoffrey Boycott, himself one of England's all-time highest scoring Test batsmen and now the game's most forthright, shrewd ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Thommo Speaks Out

    The authorised biography of Jeff Thomson

    'I just run in and go whang.'This is how Jeff Thomson, the fastest bowler of all times, explains his technique. Thommo was feared by batsmen all around the world. Sri Lankan Sunil Wettimuny recalls facing one of Thommo's balls: 'Never before or since that day did I know fear on the cricket field.'Mike Brearley, the Middlesex captain who led England during the World Series Cricket incursion, said ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

    Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game's one true living legend and his story both on and off the pitch reads like a Boy's Own rollercoaster ride.Born with a natural genius for cricket, Botham began breaking records with bat and ball from a young age and soon became the man English cricket expected most from. After a troubled period ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Indian Cricket - Why Good Will Never be Great

    The Greatest Celebration of Indian Cricket

    In India, cricket is a religion and cricketers are Gods. This book is a pure celebration of India's cricket history and the players who took Indian cricket to great heights. Yet unlike other books that are one-dimensional, this book also looks at the flip side and asks the ‘why’ questions that are seldom asked in India. The book offers great insights into why India has never managed to reach the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Cricket Made Simple

    An Entertaining Introduction to the Game for Mums and Dads

    I'm in the team can you come and watch me play? If you will be sitting by a cricket pitch this summer, mystified by the antics on the field in front of you, Cricket Made Simple is the book for you. Not only will it help to explain what is going on from the spectator s viewpoint it will also raise you several notches in your loved one's esteem. After reading Cricket Made Simple, you will be able to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Captains

    by Malcolm Knox ...
    From Australias first Test cricket captain Dave Gregory, through to the current captain Ricky Ponting, Malcolm Knoxs new book tells the colourful story of how Australian cricket has evolved since its earliest days, how the captain has influenced or stood apart from that evolution, and how the captaincy itself has changed over time. Covering the highs and lows of Australias national game, The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Out of the Park

    30 invaluable life lessons you can learn from cricket

    Down on his knees! Clobbered that one in typical fashion! Unleashing the slog sweep; masterclass this! Heart-in-the-mouth situation for a moment but the batsman there pulled out a trick that he had camouflaged all this while! This is gonna get done easily from this point onwards we reckon. Three in three.In comes the bowler. Play and a miss! Just did enough to literally kiss the edge. Three in two ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Never a Gentlemen's Game

    by Malcolm Knox ...
    Compared to the controversies of contemporary cricket riven as it is with match-fixing, gambling, cheating and national politics most people think of the early days of Test cricket as a time of gentlemanly competition and camaraderie, with any disputes settled by Queensberry Rules over a glass of port. Not so. History shows us that cricket between the 1870s and 1914 was fraught with exactly the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Australia: Story of a Cricket Country

    by Chris Ryan ...
    More than a comprehensive history, this ground-breaking volume is a colourful, insightful and affectionate portrait of Australian cricket. A selection of Australias best writers share their thoughts on different aspects of the game and its place in our national culture; from bowling, captaincy and scoring, to alcohol, media and literature. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Greatest

    by Malcolm Knox ...
    From 1993 to 2008 the Australian cricket team reached the highest of heights. They won three world cups in a row and sixteen consecutive test matches. They continually dominated England in the Ashes, destroyed the once great West Indies, who had defeated them constantly, and outplayed South Africa and India, both at home and abroad. The 2003 and 2007 world cups Australia won without losing a match ... Read more

    $10.99 USD