FAVOURITE CRICKET BOOKS

The Red Telephone

The Red Telephone

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Nowt like a good cricket book to pass the time now that I'm a man of leisure.
Here's my favourite ten:

1.A Last English Summer..Duncan Hamilton.
2.Bodyline Autopsy...David Frith
3.Grovel!The Story & Legacy of the Summer of 1976..David Tossell.
4.Summers With Durham..Tim Wellock.
5.A Lot Of Hard Yakka..Simon Hughes.
6.Harold Larwood..Duncan Hamilton.
7.Rain Men...Marcus Berkmann
8.Slipless In Settle..Harry Pearson
9.Basil D'Oliveira....Peter Oborne
10.From Minor To Major...Simon Hughes.

Any other recommendations?
 


The Red Telephone said:
Nowt like a good cricket book to pass the time now that I'm a man of leisure.
Here's my favourite ten:

1.A Last English Summer..Duncan Hamilton.
2.Bodyline Autopsy...David Frith
3.Grovel!The Story & Legacy of the Summer of 1976..David Tossell.
4.Summers With Durham..Tim Wellock.
5.A Lot Of Hard Yakka..Simon Hughes.
6.Harold Larwood..Duncan Hamilton.
7.Rain Men...Marcus Berkmann
8.Slipless In Settle..Harry Pearson
9.Basil D'Oliveira....Peter Oborne
10.From Minor To Major...Simon Hughes.

Any other recommendations?
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Bradman's War and Jack Hobbs biography wete both well written and researched
 
The Red Telephone said:
Nowt like a good cricket book to pass the time now that I'm a man of leisure.
Here's my favourite ten:

1.A Last English Summer..Duncan Hamilton.
2.Bodyline Autopsy...David Frith
3.Grovel!The Story & Legacy of the Summer of 1976..David Tossell.
4.Summers With Durham..Tim Wellock.
5.A Lot Of Hard Yakka..Simon Hughes.
6.Harold Larwood..Duncan Hamilton.
7.Rain Men...Marcus Berkmann
8.Slipless In Settle..Harry Pearson
9.Basil D'Oliveira....Peter Oborne
10.From Minor To Major...Simon Hughes.

Any other recommendations?
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On Warne, by Gideon Haigh - marvelously written (if a tad indulgent).

In fact, anything by Gideon Haigh
 
trescos book

I also liked David gowers

got a canny library of cricket books, which have been mentioned already
 
Atherton and Hussein's autobiographies are excellent. Simon Wilde's book Caught about the Cronje match fixing scandal is fantastic, if somewhat complex. Fatty Batter is a good laugh as well
 
The Red Telephone said:
Nowt like a good cricket book to pass the time now that I'm a man of leisure.
Here's my favourite ten:

1.A Last English Summer..Duncan Hamilton.
2.Bodyline Autopsy...David Frith
3.Grovel!The Story & Legacy of the Summer of 1976..David Tossell.
4.Summers With Durham..Tim Wellock.
5.A Lot Of Hard Yakka..Simon Hughes.
6.Harold Larwood..Duncan Hamilton.
7.Rain Men...Marcus Berkmann
8.Slipless In Settle..Harry Pearson
9.Basil D'Oliveira....Peter Oborne
10.From Minor To Major...Simon Hughes.

Any other recommendations?
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Read most of those, good choices.

Pietersen's made me laugh in terms of constant character assasinations.

chunkylover53 said:
Penguin stopped play was enjoyable
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Impossible not to cry during the last chapter though :(
 
chunkylover53 said:
Penguin stopped play was enjoyable
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I read that book and when Harry Thompson talked about Cee, a great lad who'd play cricket anytime, I was so pleased that he was mentioned in print. But when his death on the field was covered it was a huge shock. You never expect to read about a friend's death in a book.
 
jackpunch said:
Atherton and Hussein's autobiographies are excellent. Simon Wilde's book Caught about the Cronje match fixing scandal is fantastic, if somewhat complex. Fatty Batter is a good laugh as well
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Atherton's is brilliant, he is a born writer. I enjoyed Vaughan's too as it was a fairly honest insight of a memorable era for England, and I thought Boycott's autobiography, originally released 30 years ago, was a superb read.
 
Ageing trundler said:
Cream Teas and Nutty Slack is a good chronicle of North East cricket. Anything by Harry Pearson usually raises a few chuckles too.
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Ageing trundler said:
Cream Teas and Nutty Slack is a good chronicle of North East cricket. Anything by Harry Pearson usually raises a few chuckles too.
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'The Trundlers' is another canny one from Harry Pearson although nothing compares to his 'The Far Corner'

NorthCountryBoy said:
Read most of those, good choices.

Pietersen's made me laugh in terms of constant character assasinations.



Impossible not to cry during the last chapter though :(
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Most definitely.

I've picked up a few gems from the Second Hand Book Sale they have during the intervals.
Bob Willis' 'Captain's Diary ' and 'Diary of a Season' from the late 70s definitely show an early flowering of his latter day Sky persona !!!:):)
 
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I love the nostalgic observations of 'Rain Men' ie
Peter West handing over to Jim Laker on BBC2's John Player League to be followed by silence then 30 seconds of laboured breathing then the inevitable 'Nkyou Peter'
Mike Hendrick's ability to nearly take wickets.
Graham Roope always scoring promising 23s for England
Zaheer's grave tendency to score large 200s against England.
Laker's near obsession with Little Harry Pilling being 5ft 3" in his stockinged feet.
JSE Price's run up starting somewhere in the stands.
Chris Tavare gleefully scoring 35 in 334 minutes in Madras in 82.

Aah the memories!!
 

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