CRICKET BOOKS

In this review Martin looks at a newly published book on the subject of a fascinating cricketer, albeit one who never graced the First Class game

As the County Championship retreats to the back of the stage at least we have a new edition of County Cricket Matters to enjoy

It should come as no surprise to anyone to see that this appreciation of an unsung Lancashire hero of the distant past appealed to Martin

More books have been written about Sir Donald Bradman than any other cricketer, but not many of them are as interesting as the one Mark Rowe has written

Wicketkeepers and their duties don’t generally attract too much attention from writers, but they certainly do in this new book from Luke Sutton

Regulars will be only too aware of Martin’s Lancastrian roots, but this week he seems to have been very happy to have been reading a book about the game in the county of the White Rose

More than a century after he was in his prime cricket finally has a biography of the finest cricketer the United States of America have produced

Martin has submitted a review of this year’s Wisden, although ‘review’ is something of a misdescription. Nonetheless we thought we had better humour him, so here it is

Its subject matter is a little way outside the mainstream of cricket literature, but this one is a credit to both author and publisher

This week Martin reviews a new book that, it seems, is required reading for all