Cricket Books and Magazines

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: The Cricketers of My Time, List of works by cricket historians and writers, Playfair Cricket Annual, Cricket poetry, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Runs n' Ruins, Beyond a Boundary, Pundits From Pakistan, The Zoya Factor, Cricket in fiction, The West Indies Cricket Annual, The Best Loved Game, The Art of Cricket, England, Their England, The Guide to Cricketers, The Wisden Cricketer, Indian Cricket, The Cricket Annual, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia, Wisden Cricket Monthly, The Art of Captaincy, A Lot of Hard Yakka, Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game, Penguins Stopped Play, MCC Coaching manual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Wisden Asia Cricket, Line and Strength, The Jubilee Book of Cricket, James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual, Cricinfo Magazine, SPIN World Cricket Monthly Magazine, All Out Cricket, ABC Cricket Book, Indian Summers, More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years. Excerpt: The Cricketers of My Time is a memoir of cricket, nominally written by the former Hambledon cricketer John Nyren about the players of the late 18th century, most of whom he knew personally. Nyren, who had no recognised literary skill, collaborated with the eminent Shakespearean scholar Charles Cowden Clarke to produce his work. It is believed that Cowden Clarke recorded Nyren's verbal reminiscences and so "ghosted" the text. The work became a major source for the history and personalities of Georgian cricket and has also come to be regarded as the first classic in cricket's now rich literary history. Writing in 1957, John Arlott described it as "still the finest study of cricket and cricketers ever written." The Cricketers of My Time was first published in serial form by a weekly London newspaper called The Town in 1832. The following year, the series with some modifications appeared as th...