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The A-Z of Australian Cricketers provides detailed and well-researched biographies, including career statistics, for every player to have represented Australia at Test level and a host of other memorable characters from Limited Overs and the first-class scene. Comprising 646 entries in total, this book is a useful reference work for any cricket buff, though potential purchasers should be aware that it is ostensibly the same text, updated and slightly expanded, as that found in the comprehensive Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket. The 45 contributors take in an impressive selection of experts and significant figures from the Australian cricket scene, making this an authoritative volume of considered appraisals. Starry-eyed eulogies these are not–players’ problems and weaknesses are also examined, and the result is a series of well-balanced, beautifully written portraits that capture the essential characters of these antipodean sporting heroes. –Alisdair Bowles

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At Nottingham and Leeds, he played fast bowling with a rhetorical slash, a quite wild impetuosity. Now, at Leeds, in a serious hour for Australia, he could summon back at one call the old cool, premeditated craft and foresight.

Nearly 7000 runs in 80 Test innings for an unparalleled average of 99.94, all achieved with a studied grace that bewitched bowlers and crowds alike, made Sir Donald Bradmen, “The Don”, the most acclaimed batsman in cricket’s history.

In Wisden on Bradman, eulogies and critiques of his achievements and times, including the views of Bradman himself, form the background to the most complete study of his career yet in print. With scorecards, match reports and analysis, every first-class performance is given the Wisden treatment–from his century-making Sheffield Shield debut in 1927 to an imperious 123 at his testimonial match 21 years later.

There can be little doubt that Wisden is sport’s most enduring, idiosyncratic and authoritative sporting almanac–over centuries it has set the standard for accurate, evocative sports journalism–and this career overview of one of cricket’s legends will delight and entertain any fan of the game.

Literary and thoughtful, free of the bombast and bluster of so much modern sports writing, this is a real “winter warmer” of a book, recalling the artistry and industry of a sporting great in a golden age of cricket.–Alex Hankin

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The Wisden Cricket Quiz Book provides over 2,000 questions to test your knowledge – from the bizarre (When did fried calamari stop play in a first-class match?) to traditional trivia (Who was the first Test player to be born in Papua New Guinea?). The answers can all be found in past editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

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Compile a book claiming to contain “the greatest” of anything and you are bound to run into problems. Do it with cricket and you are asking for trouble–everyone will disagree with at least one of your entries and chide you for perceived omissions.

But John Woodcock, Times writer and cricket correspondent for more than 50 years, is among the best qualified to undertake such a task. And an admirable job he made of it in The Times One Hundred Greatest Cricketers.

Opening the innings with a name few would argue with–W G Grace–Woodcock goes through many other of the greatest names the sport has ever seen–Don Bradman, Garfield Sobers, Len Hutton, Shane Warne, Viv Richards, Ian Botham–and includes cricketing greats past and the present.

In addition to a one-page potted history of the player’s career, each entry has a black- and-white picture to accompany it. A statistical index (accurate until March/April 1998) completes the information, giving the kind of figures cricket fans love–batting averages, highest scores, number of wickets etc. An introduction explains the thinking behind the choices and a foreword by former England captain Mike Brearley is a perfect starting place.

A great book for cricket fanatics, this will also appeal to the more casual fan. Accessible, well-written and interesting, it will certainly provoke debate, whether you agree with the entries or not.

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Ian MacLaurin is chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, chairman of Vodaphone and former chairman of Tesco. He has spent a career in business taking tigers by the tail, but none was as spectacular as the way in which he turned Tesco into the market leader it is today. His business memoir explains how he achieved this. LacLaurin lead Tesco’s Operation Checkout in 1979, which allowed the company to make a clean break with its past and re-positioned itself in the market by discontinuing Green Shield stamps. To achieve this he clashed with the company’s founder “Slasher Jack” Cohen who believed the stamps were the touchstone of the company’s success. MacLaurin won the battle and his plan paid off. By the mid-1970s, stamps had passed their sell-by date and a new generation of customers had emerged. Tiger by the Tail is not a management book and MacLaurin does not plan to become a management guru espousing “transaction processing” and “geometric modelling” of Total Quality Management. The book is a fascinating recollection of daring business experiences and interesting businesspeople. In Tesco there is now a tight, top-down management structure, and MacLaurin plans to bring some of his expertise to the cricketing counties which, in many ways, are like co-ops. In his words, they are one of the great, traditional institutions in retailing and a dominant player in the sector, but one in which the devolution of power to the individual profit centres has meant that it has been unable to adapt to the competitive market in which it now has to trade.

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The Spirit of… series is quickly establishing itself as one of the leading sports photography collections and The Spirit of Cricket more than upholds the standard. Beautifully packaged in a panoramic format and packed with full colour photography, this is an essential companion to the sport of gentlemen, with highs and lows, moments of drama and calm all captured in its pages. It is impossible to describe in detail all the many wonderful and breathtaking shots that can be found within the book, but highlights include a feelgood picture of jubilant fans celebrating England’s historic victory over Australia in the Third Test at Headingley in July 1981 and a triumphant Australian team lifting the World Cup after beating Pakistan in the final at Lords in June 1999. The book also takes the reader on an atmospheric tour of the world’s cricket grounds and includes seven articles by respected cricket writer Frank Keating.

Put simply, this book is a delightful gem and delivers as much as it promises not only for the ardent fan, but the occasional supporter. If you have only a passing interest in cricket then you must own this book. If cricket is your life, then it should be made a crime not to have it on your shelves. –Jonathan Weir

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