CRICKET BOOKS

County cricket matters, the more so when the Test team is so fragile

It’s Archie’s chance this week to review Greg Milam’s recent biography of Tony Dell – does he agree with Martin?

is the second monograph in the new Cricketers in Print series as good as the first?

Edmund Carter is far from a household name, but he made an important if largely indirect contribution to the history of Yorkshire cricket

This week Martin reviews David Battersby’s latest monograph and, based on his rating, this one is the best yet

It has taken 145 years, but James Southerton’s account of the 1876/77 visit of an English team to Australia has finally been published in book form

New material from Neville Cardus continues to emerge and, as another Ashes contest unfolds in Australia, it is fitting that the latest instalment concerns his time there

It’s back to 1930 and a remarkable match at Bristol that is the subject of Gerry Wolstenholme’s latest book

In this review The Mac revisits his first five star book

Written by Scyld Berry and bearing the Fairfield Books imprint means that the quality of this one comes with a copper-bottomed guarantee