Martin is always on the look out for the unusual, and finding a copy of an obscure Australian biography of a Yorkshire amateur who played for the county briefly in the late 1940s has given him a great deal of pleasure
CRICKET BOOKS
This booklet, the latest from Red Rose Books, is probably one for Lancastrians only. Even then it will not be to all tastes, but unsurprisingly Martin seems to have enjoyed it
Dave revisits a book previously reviewed by Martin, with perhaps a slightly more analytical eye, on a revision of one of the most famous numbers in sport, Bradman’s Test average
This month sees the release of a new limited edition in the Cricket Books.com.au ‘Nostalgia Series’, and Archie is clearly impressed
Our second Indian published book this week is not as ambitious a project as the first, but nonetheless it would seem that Martin enjoyed it rather more
Our first new Indian book this week is an ambitious project and a bulky tome but, it seems, not one which Martin found entirely satisfying
To those outside of the sub-continent the name of MV Sridhar is unlikely to be a familiar one, but it seems from Martin’s review that his life story is still well worth a read
As this Gloucestershire story explains the annals of cricket do not always stand up to the closest of scrutiny, and sometimes have to be corrected
The doings of a scratch eleven from the West of England during World War Two is the subject of this booklet from the Gloucestershire Museum
In this review Archie looks at a rare thing, a book about Australian domestic cricket