Cricket Books

[Matt79]

These diaries tend to be what they are - Ponting, or anyone else, is unlikely to be pursuing a course they think is stupid at the time, and they're written too soon and too quickly for any introspection to have occurred. What you get instead is "we won, very pleasing", or "while we lost, I think we did everything right that we could, and while we need to take responsibility, people forget that x, y, and z".

That said, I've put it on the list for Santa - will read it once, chuckle regularly and put it on the shelf.

[nightprowler10]

Perhaps not surprisingly that incident isn't mentioned in Zaheer's autobiography

It must have been in 1978 - most self effacing that Imran didn't mention that that was the same game in which he scored his first century for Sussex - 167 out of which over 100 came in boundaries so a memorable contribution

Aye he did mention it casually, but I skipped that part of the paragraph.

[Lillian Thomson]

Just bought Clive Lloyd's latest autobiography at last....

[archie mac]

Is Ricky Ponting's 2008 Captain Diary any good?

http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketbooks/5452.php

[archie mac]

Just bought Clive Lloyd's latest autobiography at last....

Gives us an idea what it is like please

[Lillian Thomson]

Gives us an idea what it is like please

Will do. But remember I hated Grovel and the Botham book which everyone else liked.

[archie mac]

Will do. But remember I hated Grovel and the Botham book which everyone else liked.

Well the Botham book I can over look, but Grovel

[Craig]

http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketbooks/5452.php

Awesome.

[Bees]

I borrowed Mark Butcher's Teach Yourself Cricket from the local library the other day. I think this is a great book for someone whose only started to seriously learn about the game. That's the intended target audience, and I've got a lot of out this.

[fredfertang]

So who got cricket books for Chrimbo?

Just to show what a sad bastard I am my favoured present was a copy of a little Indian published paperback account of the 76/77 MCC tour by Dicky Rutnager which came accompanied by six similar volumes two of which I didn't already have!

[archie mac]

So who got cricket books for Chrimbo?

Just to show what a sad bastard I am my favoured present was a copy of a little Indian published paperback account of the 76/77 MCC tour by Dicky Rutnager which came accompanied by six similar volumes two of which I didn't already have!

I picked up one by Boycott where he names all his Test elevens

One about the first published rules of cricket

One about the travelling AEE of the 1860s

And the auto bio. of David Frith

[Matt79]

Got Gilchrist's autobiog.

[archie mac]

Got Gilchrist's autobiog.

Did you read the review on the site?

[Matt79]

Yeah, said it was ok IIRC? 3.5/5?

[fredfertang]

And the auto bio. of David Frith

Have you placed your order for this Sean?

The David Frith Archive

A Detailed Catalogue of the Cricket Library
and Memorabilia Collection of David Frith

To be published in April 2009. Order now - only 75 copies available