A book devoted to Sri Lankan cricket is a rare thing, and we are very grateful to author Ranjan Mellawa for providing us with a review copy of his magnum opus on the subject of the game he loves
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The usual reason for buying a book is to provide a source of entertainment or to acquire knowledge. This one does both, and as a bonus your hard earned will support a very worthy cause
Sussex supporters of a certain age will doubtless remember it well, but for those of us who don’t fall into that category here is an interesting reminder of the off field events that transformed the club a couple of decades ago
In this feature Martin looks at the, judged by 21st century standards, extraordinary life of Lionel Tennyson
Related from a distinctly Welsh perspective there are familiar themes, and some more unusual ones to this interesting book
Arthur Mailey was probably not the greatest leg spinner Australia has produced, but he is surely the most interesting
This week Martin reviews another autobiography of an Indian cricketer, and finds it is anything but just another autobiography by an Indian cricketer
As our regular readers know we don’t just review new books on Cricketweb, and here Martin take a look at an old Indian book with a lofty reputation
As a breed fast bowlers generally seem to be much more interesting characters than those who specialise in other cricketing disciplines. Pakistan’s 1970s paceman Sarfraz Nawaz is a typical example
It has been a while now since we had a new cricket book from Pitch Publishing, but this review of England’s Test tours in the quarter century after the Second World War is right up to their usual high standard