CRICKET BOOKS

This week, better late than never, we get round to looking at one of the best received cricket books of 2018

In this self published labour of love Renato Carini examines the legacy left by Victor Trumper, and like others before him demonstrates why cricketers should never be judged by statistics alone

Two five star books in as many weeks is certainly a first, and not a decision that was taken lightly, but we feel we have a responsibility to tell it how it is

A book to bring back happy memories for Warwickshire supporters, but this splendid reminder of how the English domestic game worked before the advent of T20 should be of much wider appeal

Derbyshire have only won the County Championship once, a story that is superbly told in this book by John Shawcroft

With just a month to go before it all begins the first publication we have seen on the subject of the 2019 World Cup looks at the stories of the two nations who will start as the competition’s outsiders

England’s oldest living Test cricketer is a Sussex man, and in his 96th year the county’s museum have decided to honour him with a booklet devoted to his life

Rupert Webb was an old fashioned wicketkeeper. He was no mug with the bat, but as he never did quite manage a First Class fifty he couldn’t be considered an all-rounder in the modern sense. His glove work was nonetheless of sufficient quality to see him as his county’s first choice for the best part […]

A disproportionate number of our five star books have come from just one small publisher, and with the autobiography of Fred Rumsey Fairfield Books have come up with another outstanding title

Gerald Howat wrote a number of cricket books back in the 1980s, only one of which we have previously looked at. This week David Taylor moves towards redressing the balance by reviewing Howat’s look at the game in the inter-war years