This week Gareth reviews a book that examines the 1978/79 Ashes series as it was played out against the backdrop of World Series Cricket.
CRICKET BOOKS
This week Martin reviews a rare beast; a cricketing autobiography published in the Caribbean.
Robin Jackman has always seemed like an interesting character, and from Martin’s review it would seem that his recent autobiography bears that out.
Former Glamorgan and England opening batsman Steve James has written the first detailed account of the contribution of two Zimbabweans to English cricket – Ewen Day-Collins has review the book for us.
Despite selling many more copies than almost all cricket books with loftier reputations I don’t recall seeing a review of “Cricket’s Strangest Matches” until now.
Geoff Boycott is known for his firm, sometimes trenchant, views on the game and how it should be played. This week Gareth reviews his thoughts, as they were shortly after his playing career ended.
It would seem from this week’s review that the old adage “Form is temporary, class is permanent” applies just as appropriately to writing about the game as playing it.
Feature writer David Mutton makes his bow on CW with this week’s review, a look at a biography of one of English cricket’s more interesting characters from a couple of generations ago
Copies of some books that are published on the sub-continent can be tricky to track down – did this title about Shahid Afridi reward the effort Martin put in to find it?
The flow of, and presumably therefore demand for, books about Sir Donald Bradman, shows no sign of drying up. We haven’t reviewed many, so to help redress the balance David has been reading a 1996 biography.