CRICKET BOOKS

As yet another Ashes series looms large we have a guest review of a book written almost forty years ago on the subject of a crushing England win

Thanks to Bloomsbury we have three copies of this book to give away so it’s just as well it’s a good ‘un – details are in the Cricket Books thread on the forum which is linked to at the end of Archie’s review

A rare maximum from Martin for an eclectic selection of essays that form the core of the third issue of what is, with all due respect to Major Bowen, unarguably the best periodical ever to appear on the game, or indeed any game

Archie breaks with tradition to include an interview with author Daniel Brettig in his review of his latest book which, despite its title, is not simply an antipodean gloat over the outcomes of a couple of recent Ashes series

As promised we follow up Gulu’s review of Makarand Waingarkar’s latest book with Martin’s impressions of its predecessor

An interesting look by Gulu at a book from a long-serving colleague. Watch out for a review of another of Waingankar’s books from Martin in the course of the next few days

On 25th June the 2015 Australians will begin their tour at Canterbury. The traditional opener at Arundel has long been dispensed with, sadly, but Kent will be one of the few counties to entertain the tourists. Time was, of course, when the tourists would play every county – a few of them twice – as […]

Martin has had a long wait for a biography of Ted McDonald, the great Australian quick who threw in his lot with Lancashire, and it seems he wasn’t disappointed

All Test match captains should have their biography written, and with the publication of Max Bonnell’s latest Australia’s Herb Collins joins the ranks of those whose stories have been told

While the Review Team were working on the Book of the Year author Barry Nicholls helped out by reviewing a recent release that had slipped under Martin’s radar