A Collection of Some Cricket Books (with links)
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Masterly Batting by Patrick Ferriday: Ranking the best hundred Test batting performances through deeply involved statistics and reportage. Well-written, great combination of good writing and sensible usage of numbers.
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Supreme Bowling by Patrick Ferriday: The bowling analog of the above book. Hundred greatest bowling spells.
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Test Cricket: The Unathorised Biography by Jarrod Kimber: The complete history of the game told through interesting short-form articles.
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A Corner Of A Foreign Field by Ramachandra Guha: Indian political and social history told through the looking glass of cricket, right from the beginnings of the sport in the country.
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Saving The Test by Mike Jakeman: A point-by-point deconstruction of the issues plaguing Test cricket and where to go with them. Chapters on the length of the tour, the role of T20, and an amazing comparison with baseball broadcasting.
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Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket In Pakistan by Peter Oborne.
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CMJ: A Cricketing Life by Christopher Martin-Jenkins: An autobiography of one of the most adored cricket mediapersons of the times.
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Cricket, Literature and Culture by Dr. Anthony Bateman.
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In It To Win It: The Australian Cricket Supremacy by Peter Roebuck.
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The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914 by Christopher Sandford: A narrative of the host of English cricketers that signed up for the Great War and lost their lives.
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The Making of New Zealand Cricket by Greg Ryan.
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The Spirit of Cricket by Rob Smyth.
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A Collection of PG Wodehouse Cricket Tales in HTML format.
Posted Feb 17, 2017, 3:10 AM UTC