Bibliography of cricket
This is a bibliography of literary and historical works about cricket. The list is sorted by author's name. It is inevitably highly selective. The 1984 edition of E. W. Padwick's A Bibliography of Cricket had more than 10,000 entries.
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;David Rayvern Allen- Arlott on Cricket
- Cricket on the Air
- Early Books on Cricket
- MCC Cricket Coaching Book, 1st edition
- Hampshire County Cricket: The official history of Hampshire County Cricket Club
- A History of Cricket - various editions, most recently 1962, 1968
- Lord's and the MCC
- The Heart of Cricket: A memoir of H.S. Altham
- Indian Summer
- Gone to the Cricket
- How to Watch Cricket
- From Hambledon to Lords
- Concerning Cricket
- The Middle Ages of Cricket
- Gone with the Cricketers
- Cricket in the Counties
- Days at the Cricket
- Maurice Tate
- The Echoing Green
- Test Match Diary 1953
- Australian Test Journal 1954-55
- Alletson's Innings
- Cricket Journal
- Cricket Journal 2
- Cricket Journal 3 : Cricket on Trial
- Cricket Journal 4 : The Australian Challenge
- Vintage Summer 1967
- Cricket - The Great Ones : Eight First Class Batsmen
- Cricket - The Great Bowlers
- The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints
- Cricket - The Great All-rounders
- Cricket - The Great Captains
- Fred - Portrait of a Fast Bowler
- The Ashes 1972
- A Hundred Years of County Cricket
- An Eye for Cricket
- John Arlott's Book of Cricketers
- Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master
- A Word from Arlott
- Arlott on Cricket
- John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen
- The Essential John Arlott
- Basingstoke Boy : The Autobiography
- A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Randwick, Ironbark Press, 1992.
- At the Sign of the Wicket - a series in Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
- Sussex Cricket and Cricketers
- Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901
- The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796
- Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880
- A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1707-1863
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Australia
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in India
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in New Zealand
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in North and South America
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Pakistan
- A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in South Africa
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Sri Lanka
- A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the West Indies
- The ACS International Cricket Yearbook
- The ACS Second Eleven Annual
- The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for members
- The ACS Famous Cricketers Series''.
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- Who's Who of Cricketers
- The Greatest of My Time
- The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story
- Ten Great Innings
- Ten Great Bowlers
- England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968
- Cricketing Family Edrich
- Innings of a Lifetime, 1954-77
- Purple Patches
- South Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970
- The West Indies in Australia 1930-31
- A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32
- Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36
- South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960
- South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory
- MCC in South Africa 1938-39
- Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings
- Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23
- The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa
- Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England
- The Way of Cricket
- A Tale of Two Tests
- Spin Me a Spinner
- The New Champions
- Willow Patterns
- Test Cricket
- World Series Cup Cricket 1981-82
- The Hottest Summer
- The Ashes 1982-83
- Benaud on Reflection
- The Appeal of Cricket
- Anything But
- My Spin on Cricket
- Over But Not Out
- A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and all other principal matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive
- Atherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval
- Knowing the Score
- His Own Enemy
- The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock
- George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional
- Ernest Hayes - Brass in a Golden Age
- Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World
- A Social History of English Cricket
- The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored
- The Art of Cricket. Hodder & Stoughton. .
- The Story of My Cricketing Life with hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding in the Cricketer Annual
- Farewell to Cricket
- The Art of Captaincy
- A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year x
- Great Days in New Zealand Cricket
- New Zealand Cricketers
- The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd,
- Next Man In : A survey of cricket laws and customs
- Hit for Six
- Felix on the Bat: Being a Memoir of Nicholas Felix.
- The Croucher: A Biography of Gilbert Jessop
- Maurice Tate: a biography
- The Lost Art
- Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket
- Legends of the Baggy Green
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- A Cricketer's Book
- Days in the Sun
- Good Days
- Australian Summer
- Autobiography
- Second Innings
- Cricket All The Year
- Close of Play
- The Playfair Cardus
- The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints
- Full Score
- Cardus on Cricket
- Cardus in the Covers
- Play Resumed With Cardus
- A Fourth Innings with Cardus
- The Roses Matches 1919-1939
- A Cardus for All Seasons
- Cardus on the Ashes
- The Wisden Papers of Neville Cardus
- England Over, A Cricket Book
- Son of Grief
- To The Wicket
- Cricket Almanack of New Zealand
- New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1974
- Patrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian cricket
- 'Ave a go, yer mug ! Australian Cricket Crowds from Larrikin to Ocker
- The "Demon" Spofforth
- Runs in the Memory
- Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s
- One More Run
- At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard
- Guess My Story: The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer
- No Coward Soul: The Remarkable Story of Bob Appleyard
- Ken Taylor: Drawn to Sport
- A Summer of Plenty: George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906
- Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns
- Five Five Five: Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932
- The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past
- Now I'm 62: The Diary of an Ageing Cricketer
- A Long Half Hour: Six Cricketers Remembered
- Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket
- Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters: The Wonderful World of Wandering Cricket
- Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other
- Out of the Blue: Rajasthan's Road to the Ranji Trophy
- Cricket Memories
- Second Innings
- The Happy Cricketer
- The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket
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- Eton v Harrow at Lord's
- W. G. Grace
- Cricket, an Heroic Poem
- Cricket
- Sketches of the Players
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- A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791
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- Felix on the Bat
- Cricket Crisis
- Brightly Fades the Don
- Brown & Company
- The Ashes Crown the Year
- Masters of Cricket
- Four Chukkas to Australia
- The Greatest Test of All
- Fingleton on Cricket, London, Collins, 1972.
- The Immortal Victor Trumper
- Batting from Memory
- Cricket - A Social History 1700-1835
- The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978
- The Fast Men
- My Dear Victorious Stod
- The Golden Age of Cricket
- The Slow Men
- Archie Jackson
- Pageant of Cricket
- Silence of the Heart
- Bodyline Autopsy
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- Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923
- Jackson's Year: The Test Matches Of 1905
- Growing Up With Cricket - Some Memories of a Sporting Education
- The Cricket Captains of England
- Of Didcot and the Demon: The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson
;William Goldwin
- In Certamen Pilae
- Hambledon - The Men and the Myths
- Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections
- Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991
- Wickets in the East
- Spin and Other Turns
- An Indian Cricket Omnibus
- The Picador Book of Cricket
- A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British sport
- The States of Indian Cricket
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- Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999.
- The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket
- Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket
- Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History
- The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket
- Harold Larwood
- A History of Australian Cricket
- The History of the Sheffield Shield
- Captaincy in Cricket
- Captain out, All Out
- Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies, published in 15 volumes between 1862 and 1879
- Cricket on the Brain
- Learie Constantine
- Village Cricket,
- Cricketer Militant: the life of Jack Parsons
- Walter Hammond
- Plum Warner
- Len Hutton: The Biography
- Cricket's Second Golden Age: The Hammond-Bradman Years
- Cricket Medley
- Cricket All My Life
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- Beyond a Boundary
- In Quest of the Ashes
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- In Search of Cricket
- The Scarborough Cricket Festival
- History Of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949
- Yorkshire County Cricket
- Len Hutton: The story of a great cricketer
- Cricket
- Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956
- A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket
- A History of Yorkshire Cricket
- Thanks to Cricket
- Overthrows
- Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn: Edited by Duncan Hamilton
- The Complete Cricketer
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- Test of Time, John Murray, 2005
- From the Sea End - Official History of Sussex CCC
- The History of Surrey County Cricket Club
- The Language of Cricket
- The Hambledon Men
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- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century
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- Trumper: the illustrated biography, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985.
- A History of Sussex Cricket
- The Duke Who Was Cricket
- Bat, Ball, Wicket and All
- The Field is Full of Shades
- They Made Cricket
- The Wisden Book of County Cricket
- Ball by Ball: The Story of Cricket Broadcasting
- Batsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania
- Jack Hobbs - A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman
- Walter Hammond: A biography
- Sing All A Green Willow
- Plum' Warner's Last Season
- Warwick Armstrong's Australians
- Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33
- WG Grace: His Life and Times
- 150 Years: Surrey Cricket Club 1845-1995
- Cricket Crossfire
- Our Village
- The Best Loved Game
- Cricket Cavalcade: Studies of Great Batsmen
- King of Kings: The Story of Sir Garfield Sobers
- Alfred Mynn and the Cricketers of his Time
- The Glory Days of Cricket
- John Nyren's "The Cricketers of My Time"
- Australian Cricket: A History, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959.
- The Romance of Indian Cricket 1968
- Playing for India 1972
- Between Indian Wickets 1977
- Matched Winners 1996
- Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer 1997
- An Indian Cricket Century: Selected Writings 2002
- Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8''
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- Nottingham Old Club Match Scores
- The Young Cricketer's Tutor and the Cricketers of My Time
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- A Bibliography of Cricket, Library Association, 1984
- Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991
- Cricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 - 1800
- The Don, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1995.
- Playfair Cricket Annual
- Australian Cricket 5 volumes: The Formative Years, 1803–1893; The Turbulent Years, 1893–1917; The Bradman Years 1918–1948; The Packer Years, 1948–1995; Highest, Most and Best, 192 Years of Cricket Statistics. Sydney, The Book Company, 1995.
- Australian Cricket: The game and the players. Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.
- Six and Out: The legend of Australian and New Zealand Cricket, 4th ed., North Sydney, Jack Pollard, 1973
- The Cricket Field
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- W.G. Grace: A Life
- Ranji: The Legend and the Man
- L. P. Jai: Memories of a Great Batsman
- The Romance of the Ranji Trophy
- India's Hambledon Men
- CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, 1937-1987
- C. K. Nayudu: The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket
- Duleep: A Centenary Tribute
- From Presidency to Pentangular
- Fair Play - the story of women's cricket -
- Cricket Prints - Some Batsmen and Bowlers
- More Cricket Prints - Some Batsmen and Bowlers
- 46 Not Out - an autobiography
- Rain Stopped Play
- The Brighter Side of Cricket
- All In The Game
- How To Become A Test Cricketer
- Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
- Between Wickets
- The Glad Season
- The Wildest Tests
- On Top Down Under
- Slices of Cricket Unwin, ,
- It Never Rains: A Cricketer's Lot, Unwin, ; ;
- It Sort of Clicks, ,
- Great Innings, Blitz ,
- Tangled Up In White: Peter Roebuck On Cricket, Hodder & Stoughton, ,
- From Sammy to Jimmy: History of Somerset County Cricket Club, Partridge Press ,
- Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, Allen & Unwin
- It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating Cricket's Colourful Characters, Allen & Unwin,
- In It To Win It: The Australian Cricket Supremacy Allen & Unwin,
- Australia 55
- Cape Summer and the Australians in England
- The Cricketer's Companion
- Through the Caribbean
- Australia 63
- Ranji - Prince of Cricketers
- Cricket Calling
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- 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992
- Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966
- Gary Sobers
- The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society
- The Cricket Match
- Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005
- 100 Greats of Irish Cricket
- Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland's World Cup adventure
- Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket
- PGH Fender: A Biography
- Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853, Simpkin & Marshall, 1853
- Elusive Victory
- Cricket and the Clock
- Best Cricket Stories
- West Indian Adventure 1953-1954
- West Indies Revisited - MCC tour 1959-1960
- Cricket from All Angles
- Sort of a Cricket Person
- Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-1975
- Follow On
- Barclays World of Cricket
- As I Said At The Time - a Lifetime of Cricket
- Gubby Allen - Man of Cricket
- Kent Cricket - a Photographic History 1744-1984
- The Essential E W Swanton - the 1980s Observed
- Last Over - A Life in Cricket
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- Old English Cricket
- Cricket My Pleasure
- Cricket My Happiness
- Pavilioned in Splendour
- The Great Cricketer
- Odd Men In
- Hirst and Rhodes
- Cricket Bouquet
- Cricket: The Golden Ages
- Hutton and Washbrook
- Cricket: The Great Captains
- Cricket: The Wars of the Roses
- Cricketers of My Times
- No-balls and Googlies
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- Start of Play
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- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773
- The Dawn of Cricket
- How we recovered the Ashes
- Cricket Between Two Wars
- Lord's 1787-1945
- Long Innings
- Sir Pelham Warner's Book of Cricket
- Out of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005.
- The Chronicle of W.G.
- The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
- The Australians in England: A record of the 21 Australian cricket tours of England, 1878 to 1953
- The County Cricket Championship: A history of the competition from 1873 to the present day
- Phoenix History of Cricket
- The Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1963
- Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange
- Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar
- Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers
- Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket
- Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius
- An Index to Waghorn
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia
- The Wisden Cricketer - a monthly magazine
- Wisden Cricket Monthly - merged with The Cricketer to form The Wisden Cricketer
- Wisden Asia Cricket -
- The Times - One Hundred Greatest Cricketers
- Test Decade 1972-1982
- A Wisden Collection
- Wisden at Lord's - An Illustrated Anthology
- Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records
- Give Me Arthur
- From the Weald to the World
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- Lambs to the Slaughter
- Malleson at Melbourne
- The Friendly Game