The story of Harold Larwood is well known. An unassuming and very private man Larwood emerged from the Nottinghamshire coalfields in the 1920’s and went on to become the greatest fast bowler of his generation.
Martin Chandler - ARTICLES
With six months of the year over it seems an opportune moment to have a look at the titles released so far this year that will be candidates for the CW Book of the Year 2009.
It is always nice when you enjoy reading a book, which you imagined was going to be a hard slog. That seems to be the case with Martin and his perusal of Kevin Pietersen.
Read what Martin thought of cricket historian Alan Hill’s biography of the great left armer Tony Lock.
This account of the last appearance of the great batsman is taken from a recently published book ‘The Way It Was’. We are grateful to Author and Publisher Stephen Chalke for allowing Cricket Web to feature this on the site.
Stephen Chalke is just about our favourite cricket author on Cricket Web, and he has not let us down with another great read, in The Way It Was.
Another mouth watering collectable for the cricket book aficionado
A special feature on one of the most famous of all cricketing publications, from a man who has every edition.
Lobsters, where are they? Apart from Trevor Chappell the art is indeed lost, and now illegal
This book was the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of 2008. Read what Martin thought of this most awaited publication.