A number of years on from our look at accounts of Ashes series, Martin takes a look at the books that have appeared on the subject of cricketing relations between England and South Africa
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In this self published labour of love Renato Carini examines the legacy left by Victor Trumper, and like others before him demonstrates why cricketers should never be judged by statistics alone
When this blog opened for business the original intention was for a number of the pages of the existing review section to be moved into it. Unfortunately however no one on the review team raised this with anyone with any technical knowledge and, unfortunately, it would seem that sticking to our plan would be far […]
This year’s Wisden is as good as ever, but there is a concern about one of our favourite parts of the most famous annual in sport
Two five star books in as many weeks is certainly a first, and not a decision that was taken lightly, but we feel we have a responsibility to tell it how it is
A book to bring back happy memories for Warwickshire supporters, but this splendid reminder of how the English domestic game worked before the advent of T20 should be of much wider appeal
With just a month to go before it all begins the first publication we have seen on the subject of the 2019 World Cup looks at the stories of the two nations who will start as the competition’s outsiders
England’s oldest living Test cricketer is a Sussex man, and in his 96th year the county’s museum have decided to honour him with a booklet devoted to his life
Rupert Webb was an old fashioned wicketkeeper. He was no mug with the bat, but as he never did quite manage a First Class fifty he couldn’t be considered an all-rounder in the modern sense. His glove work was nonetheless of sufficient quality to see him as his county’s first choice for the best part […]
In this feature Martin looks at the career of Polly Umrigar, a fine batsman but with a reputation, perhaps undeserved, as a poor player of fast bowling