Geoff Boycott is known for his firm, sometimes trenchant, views on the game and how it should be played. This week Gareth reviews his thoughts, as they were shortly after his playing career ended.
CRICKET BOOKS
It would seem from this week’s review that the old adage “Form is temporary, class is permanent” applies just as appropriately to writing about the game as playing it.
Feature writer David Mutton makes his bow on CW with this week’s review, a look at a biography of one of English cricket’s more interesting characters from a couple of generations ago
Copies of some books that are published on the sub-continent can be tricky to track down – did this title about Shahid Afridi reward the effort Martin put in to find it?
The flow of, and presumably therefore demand for, books about Sir Donald Bradman, shows no sign of drying up. We haven’t reviewed many, so to help redress the balance David has been reading a 1996 biography.
This week Martin reviews a new biography of an all-rounder who was at the heart of England’s all conquering side of the 1950s.
This week feature writer Gareth Bland reviews a personal favourite; the England captain’s classic account of what was, the more senior amongst us would argue, the greatest Ashes series of them all.
Few cricket books can properly be described as bestsellers, but they do come round occasionally, and this week Martin reviews one from last year.
Last week Martin mentioned a whole raft of books credited to the late Alan Ross. For his review this week David has dug out another, rather more recent project, to which Ross contributed.
Although it rather took Martin by surprise it is that time of year again, so this week it is time for our twice yearly look at recent and forthcoming titles.