CRICKET BOOKS

A serious candidate for title of the year at the very least, Archie moves away from the higher echelons of the game and reviews a book about the sort of cricket we have all played

Ever since he joined the team Martin has bemoaned the lack of a biography of Arthur Carr – he’ll have to change the record now

The CricketWeb review team is always prepared to take a bit of criticism when it’s properly due, but we won’t have anyone accuse us of favouring the mainstream of cricket publishing in our choice of books

This isn’t the first book from Rob Franks exploring one of the byways of the history of New Zealand cricket. It is however the first we have reviewed on CW – it won’t be the last

Wisden apart, there is not much in cricket literature as collectable as Arthur Mailey’s light hearted tour publications, as Martin can explain

Self publishing seems to be on the rise, and as long as this sort of quality is maintained long may that continue

In this review David looks at the story of the man who established the longest running sporting annual in the world

Nine years on a follow up to our first ever Book of the Year has been published, so we felt obliged to review it

The weather is getting warmer and, albeit in the UAE, the English season is beginning so, with much good cricket expected, what better place to start than a reminder that the season just gone was a pretty good one

Six Tyldesley’s have turned out for Lancashire, two brothers from Roe Green and four from Westhoughton – three were Test players. This booklet concerns itself in the main with one who wasn’t, but perhaps should have been