Next Wednesday we will be reviewing Wisden 2011, due for release the following day – in the meantime Martin has been reading about one of cricket’s more interesting characters.
CRICKET BOOKS
Cricket has had its share of mercurial talents. This week Archie reviews a biography of perhaps the most mercurial of all.
This week we go back more than 75 years and look at a volume of autobiography by Jack Hobbs, first published the year after he retired from the game.
Three of the Review Team have spent this week reading Mike Harfield’s second book – here is what we thought of it.
In recent years there have been numerous publications of books detailing the successes and, far more commonly, the extreme failures of lower grade cricket teams. Rain Men and its sequel Zimmer Men by Marcus Berkmann, Gideon Haigh’s The Vincibles, Harry Thompson’s When Penguins Stopped Play, and Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins are all examples of […]
It must be a very special book for Martin and Archie to agree on a 5 star rating – but then Ashes 2011 is written by Gideon Haigh.
This week David has reviewed the 1978 autobiography of one of Martin’s favourite cricketers, The Old Bald Blighter.
A change of emphasis for our second book this week as Martin reviews an umpire’s story.
Due to a small backlog we will be putting up two reviews this week so please come back in a few days, when we will look at another recently published book.
We like our cricket history here on the review team, and Patrick Ferriday has provided us with a real treat this week.