In the week that England have retained the Ashes, Martin reviews a biography of arguably the greatest Ashes skipper of them all.
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Being on Ricky Ponting’s side is not an experience I expected to have this winter, but after what I heard this morning and have been reading in the course of the day, he has my sympathy
Martin has spent the last few weeks searching for news about the books we can expect to see in 2011, and some that sneaked under the CricketWeb radar in 2010.
The final part of our series brings us up to 2009 and shows that, despite tour books generally being a thing of the past, Ashes series are as popular in print as ever.
In this feature we look at England’s tour of Pakistan in 1968/69. The cricket played was not particularly memorable, but in every other respect the tour was a remarkable one.
Ashes series have more literature dedicated to their history then any other international contest in the world. Over the coming weeks we will review the Ashes tour books. We start with 1882 to 1914
To mark the release of a new book by Stephen Chalke we are pleased to be able to feature a fine example of his writing.
Although it has been a while since Stephen Chalke’s last book appeared it seems from Martin’s review that, like Sachin Tendulkar’s batting, his writing is as good as ever.
Who would you pick for your All Time World XI? – it is a game we have all played, and which we can now play along with one hundred top players.