Cricket Books

[neville cardus]

Looks like one for me. Thanks.

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

Looks like one for me. Thanks.

Where have you been?

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

Where have you been?

Raiding the book stores of Amanzimtoti:

Mailey: 10 for 66 and all that
Fingo: Cricket Crisis
Mike Denness: I Declare
Ken Piesse: The Ashes
John St John (ed.): The M.C.C. Book for the Young Cricketer
Ray Robinson: Between Wickets
Edward Griffiths: Kepler: The Biography
Arthur Goldman: Cricket Capers
Dolly: The D'Oliveira Affair
Matthew Engel (ed.): Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995
Leslie Frewin (ed.): The Boundary Book: Second Innings
Maurice Moiseiwitsch: A Sky-Blue Life
Roy McLean: Sackcloth Without Ashes
Peter May's Book of Cricket
Norman Cutler: Behind the South African Tests
Jackie McGlew: Cricket for South Africa
Various Hustler and Playboy magazines

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

Raiding the book stores of Amanzimtoti:

Mailey: 10 for 66 and all that
Fingo: Cricket Crisis
Mike Denness: I Declare
Ken Piesse: The Ashes
John St John (ed.): The M.C.C. Book for the Young Cricketer
Ray Robinson: Between Wickets
Edward Griffiths: Kepler: The Biography
Arthur Goldman: Cricket Capers
Dolly: The D'Oliveira Affair
Matthew Engel (ed.): Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995
Leslie Frewin (ed.): The Boundary Book: Second Innings
Maurice Moiseiwitsch: A Sky-Blue Life
Roy McLean: Sackcloth Without Ashes
Peter May's Book of Cricket
Norman Cutler: Behind the South African Tests
Jackie McGlew: Cricket for South Africa
Various Hustler and Playboy magazines

The last ones just for the articles?

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

The last ones just for the articles?

Naturally.

I forgot to mention John Clarke's Cricket with a Swing and Tom Eaton's delightfully capricious but too often over-the-top Twelve Seats Back. Which of that lot would you suggest I embark upon once I'm done with Mailey?

[archie mac]

The Boundary Book is a little hit and miss, but has some very good pieces

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

The Boundary Book is a little hit and miss, but has some very good pieces

I read both of the Harry East contributions -- delightful as ever --, but you're right: it does appear a touch haphazard. What, for the record, is your favourite anthology?

PS: The Mail Delivery Service has just informed me that your mailbox is full, so my similarly haphazard message of politics and gratitude probably didn't reach you.

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

I read both of the Harry East contributions -- delightful as ever --, but you're right: it does appear a touch haphazard. What, for the record, is your favourite anthology?

PS: The Mail Delivery Service has just informed me that your mailbox is full, so my similarly haphazard message of politics and gratitude probably didn't reach you.

Not sure why it is full, have not got any messages for three days now

I quite like this one:Crickets silver lining 1864-1914

Did you get the scan by Mailey I sent you?

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

[...]I quite like this one:Crickets silver lining 1864-1914

I particularly enjoyed the Shakespearean adaptation.

Did you get the scan by Mailey I sent you?

I did indeed. My message of thanks for it was the one that didn't get through. Anyway, thanks!

[archie mac]

Anyway we have a new member of the book review team; Stuart.

Stuart is not a member of the forum but you never know he may come over for a visit, he knows his stuff and as review quite a few classic books for us already

Cradle Days

The Summer Game

Bodyline Autopsy

Beyond a Boundary

The Best of The Best

[Matt79]

Funny, I just referred to The Best of The Best in the "should batsmen get extra rewards" thread, and was thinking its easily one of the most interesting books, cricket or otherwise, I've ever read. I think it might be my best all time lucky find (I had no idea what it was when I found it in a second hand bookstore, just bought it because it was an old ABC cricket book).

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by Matt79

Funny, I just referred to The Best of The Best in the "should batsmen get extra rewards" thread, and was thinking its easily one of the most interesting books, cricket or otherwise, I've ever read. I think it might be my best all time lucky find (I had no idea what it was when I found it in a second hand bookstore, just bought it because it was an old ABC cricket book).

Yes a very good read, I remember where he said where are all of the 4 hundred hitters gone? I wonder if the same thing applies to cricket?

[Dave Gregory]

Hi all,

I'll post under the username of Dave Gregory - seems appropriate enough and 'Stuart' has already been taken. I'll continue to mainly post over at my usual haunt, however, I will have a wander through here as well.

Cheers,

Stuart

[neville cardus]

Good to have you on board.

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

Good to have you on board.

Yes welcome mate