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Cricket

March 2017 Issue

Maximilian Hildebrand

Pavilion Despot

Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy

By Charlie Campbell

June 1987 Issue

Hilary Mantel

How do You Expect to Score?

The Faber Book of Cricket

By Michael Davie and Simon Davie (eds)

November 2015 Issue

Charlie Campbell

Pushing the Boundaries

Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was WG

By Richard Tomlinson

Gilbert: The Last Years of W G Grace

By Charlie Connelly

July 1985 Issue

Imran Khan

Umpire, Umpire!

The Art of Captaincy

By Mike Brearley

March 1988 Issue

Hilary Mantel

He was Never a Boy

Peter Pan and Cricket

By David Rayvern Allen

August 2015 Issue

Peter Oborne

Against the Grain

The Awkward Squad: Rebels in English Cricket

By John Lucas

April 2004 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

The Parson’s Pastime

Village Cricket

By Tim Heald

Robert Chesshyre

The Whole 22 Yards

Jack Hobbs: England’s Greatest Cricketer

By Leo McKinstry

Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Bowlers

By Amol Rajan

June 2012 Issue

Robert Chesshyre

Tearing Up the Boundary

Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977

By Guy Fraser-Sampson

August 2013 Issue

Robert Chesshyre

Notepads & Thighpads

The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon

By The Authors Cricket Club