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March21

Cricket World Cup – The Indian Challenge

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Judging from Archie’s review it looks like the lucky winners of a copy of this book in our Fantasy Cricket Competition are going to receive a book worth reading

March08

The Strangers Who Came Home

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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

March08

Between Wickets

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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

March01

Whitewash to Whitewash

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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

February23

Guts and Glory

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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

February21

The White Horse and the Kangaroo

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The White Horse and The Kangaroo

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 […]

February15

The Silk Express

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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