Bibliography of cricket explained

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 (see below) had more than 10,000 entries.

A

David Rayvern Allen

• Arlott on Cricket (1984) (editor)
• Cricket on the Air (1985) (editor)
• Early Books on Cricket (1987)

HS Altham

• MCC Cricket Coaching Book, 1st edition (1952)
• Hampshire County Cricket: The official history of Hampshire County Cricket Club (1957)
• A History of Cricket (with E W Swanton)  - various editions, most recently 1962 (hb), 1968 (pb)
• Lord's and the MCC (with John Arlott) (1967)
• The Heart of Cricket: A memoir of H.S. Altham (1967)

John Arlott

• Indian Summer (1946)
• Gone to the Cricket (1948)
• How to Watch Cricket (1948; rev 1983)
• From Hambledon to Lords (1948)
• Concerning Cricket (1949)
• The Middle Ages of Cricket (1949)
• Gone with the Cricketers (1950)
• Cricket in the Counties (1950)
• Days at the Cricket (1951)
• Maurice Tate (1951)
• The Echoing Green (1952)
• Test Match Diary 1953 (1953)
• Australian Test Journal 1954-55 (1955)
• Alletson's Innings (1957)
• Cricket Journal (1958)
• Cricket Journal 2 (1959)
• Cricket Journal 3 : Cricket on Trial (1960)
• Cricket Journal 4 : The Australian Challenge (1961)
• Vintage Summer 1967 (1967)
• Cricket – The Great Ones : Eight First Class Batsmen (1967)
• Cricket – The Great Bowlers (1968)
• The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with Neville Cardus) (1969)
• Cricket – The Great All-rounders (1970)
• Cricket – The Great Captains (1971)
• Fred – Portrait of a Fast Bowler (1971)
• The Ashes 1972 (1972)
• A Hundred Years of County Cricket (1973)
• An Eye for Cricket (with Patrick Eagar) (1979)
• John Arlott's Book of Cricketers (1979)
• Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master (1981)
• A Word from Arlott (1983)
• Arlott on Cricket (1984) (edited by David Rayvern Allen)
• John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen (1986)
• The Essential John Arlott (1989)
• Basingstoke Boy : The Autobiography (1989)

Geoff Armstrong

• A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Randwick, Ironbark Press, 1992.

F S Ashley-Cooper

• At the Sign of the Wicket (1900) – a series in Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
• Sussex Cricket and Cricketers (1901)
• Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 (1901)
• The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 (1924)
• Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880 (1929)

Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

• A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1707-1863 (1985)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles (2nd ed 1982)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Australia (2nd ed 1983)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in India (1986)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in New Zealand (1981)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in North and South America (1987)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Pakistan (1989)
• A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in South Africa (1981)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Sri Lanka (1987)
• A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the West Indies (1984)
• The ACS International Cricket Yearbook (2013 edition is the 28th year)
• The ACS Second Eleven Annual (2013 edition is the 29th year)
• The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for members
• The ACS Famous Cricketers Series (complete playing records, match by match, of notable cricketers, 100 were published in the series).

B

Philip Bailey

• Who's Who of Cricketers (co-edited) (1984, second edition 1993)

Trevor Bailey

• The Greatest of My Time (1968)

Anthony Barker

• The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story (1998)

Ralph Barker

• Ten Great Innings (1964)
• Ten Great Bowlers (1967)
• England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968 (with Irving Rosenwater) (1969)
• Cricketing Family Edrich (1976)
• Innings of a Lifetime, 1954-77 (1982)
• Purple Patches (1987)

Brian Bassano

• South Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970 (1979)
• The West Indies in Australia 1930-31 (with Rick Smith) (1990)
• A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32 (with Rick Smith) (1991) (based on the diary of Ken Viljoen)
• Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36 (1993)
• South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960 (1996)
• South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory (1996)
• MCC in South Africa 1938-39 (1997)
• Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings (2001)
• Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23 (2004)
• The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa (with Rick Smith) (2007)
• Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England (with Rick Smith) (2012)

Richie Benaud

• The Way of Cricket (1961)
• A Tale of Two Tests (1962)
• Spin Me a Spinner (1963)
• The New Champions (1966)
• Willow Patterns (1969)
• Test Cricket (1982)
• World Series Cup Cricket 1981-82 (1982)
• The Hottest Summer (1983)
• The Ashes 1982-83 (1983)
• Benaud on Reflection (1984)
• The Appeal of Cricket (1995)
• Anything But (1998)
• My Spin on Cricket (2005)
• Over But Not Out (2010)

Henry Bentley

• 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 (1823)^[1]

Keith Booth

• Atherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval (1996)
• Knowing the Score (1998) (a history of scoring)
• His Own Enemy (2000) (biography of Ted Pooley)
• The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock (2002)
• George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional (2007)
• Ernest Hayes – Brass in a Golden Age (2009)

Rowland Bowen

• Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (1970)

Derek Birley

• A Social History of English Cricket (1999)
• The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored (1979)

Sir Don Bradman

• The Art of Cricket. Hodder & Stoughton. (1958) (1998 re-issue).
• The Story of My Cricketing Life with hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding in the Cricketer Annual (1930)
• Farewell to Cricket (1949)

Mike Brearley

• The Art of Captaincy (1985)

Samuel Britcher

• A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year x (annual series where x = 1790 to 1800)

Dick Brittenden

• Great Days in New Zealand Cricket (1958)
• New Zealand Cricketers (1961)
• The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket (1977) A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd, ^[2]

Gerald Brodribb

• Next Man In : A survey of cricket laws and customs (1953, 1985, 1996)
• Hit for Six (1960)
• Felix on the Bat: Being a Memoir of Nicholas Felix (1962). (NB: See also Nicholas Wanostrocht: Felix on the Bat (1845)
• The Croucher: A Biography of Gilbert Jessop (1974)
• Maurice Tate: a biography (1977)
• The Lost Art (1997) (A history of underarm bowling)

G B Buckley

• Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket (1935)
• Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket (1937)

Alexander Buzo

• Legends of the Baggy Green (2004)

C

Sir Neville Cardus

• A Cricketer's Book (1922)
• Days in the Sun (1924)
• Good Days (1934)
• Australian Summer (1937)
• Autobiography (1947)
• Second Innings (1950)
• Cricket All The Year (1952)
• Close of Play (1956)
• The Playfair Cardus (1963)
• The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with John Arlott) (1969)
• Full Score (1970)
• Cardus on Cricket (1977)
• Cardus in the Covers (1978)
• Play Resumed With Cardus (1979)
• A Fourth Innings with Cardus (1981)
• The Roses Matches 1919-1939 (1982)
• A Cardus for All Seasons (1985)
• Cardus on the Ashes (1989)
• The Wisden Papers of Neville Cardus (Wisden Papers) (1989) (edited by Benny Green)

Dudley Carew

• England Over, A Cricket Book (1927)
• Son of Grief (novel; 1936)
• To The Wicket (1947)

Arthur Carman

• Cricket Almanack of New Zealand
• New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1974

Richard Cashman

• Patrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian cricket (1980)
• Ave a go, yer mug ! Australian Cricket Crowds from Larrikin to Ocker (1984)
• The "Demon" Spofforth (1990)

Stephen Chalke

• Runs in the Memory (1997)
• Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s (1999)
• One More Run (2000) (with Bryan "Bomber" Wells)
• At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard)
• Guess My Story: The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer (2003)
• No Coward Soul: The Remarkable Story of Bob Appleyard (2003) (with Derek Hodgson)
• Ken Taylor: Drawn to Sport (2006)
• A Summer of Plenty: George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906 (2006)
• Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns (2007)
• Five Five Five: Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932 (2007)
• The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past (2008)
• Now I'm 62: The Diary of an Ageing Cricketer (a novel) (2010)
• A Long Half Hour: Six Cricketers Remembered (2010)
• Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket (2012)
• Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters: The Wonderful World of Wandering Cricket (2013) (with Anthony Gibson)

Aakash Chopra

• Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other (2009)
• Out of the Blue: Rajasthan's Road to the Ranji Trophy (2011)

"A Country Vicar"

• Cricket Memories (1930)
• Second Innings (1933)
• The Happy Cricketer (1946)

Tony Cozier

• The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket (1978 – foreword by Sir Garfield Sobers)

D

Bernard Darwin

• Eton v Harrow at Lord's (1926)
• W. G. Grace (1934)

James Dance (a.k.a. James Love)

• Cricket, an Heroic Poem (1744)

William Denison

• Cricket
• Sketches of the Players (1846)

E

W Epps

• A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791 (1799)

F

Nicholas Felix (Nicholas Wanostrocht)

• Felix on the Bat (1845)

Jack Fingleton

• Cricket Crisis (1947)
• Brightly Fades the Don (1949)
• Brown & Company (1951)
• The Ashes Crown the Year (1954)
• Masters of Cricket (1958)
• Four Chukkas to Australia (1960)
• The Greatest Test of All (1961)
• Fingleton on Cricket, London, Collins, 1972.
• The Immortal Victor Trumper (1978)
• Batting from Memory (1981)

John Ford

• Cricket – A Social History 1700-1835 (1972)

Bill Frindall

• The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978 (1979)

David Frith

• The Fast Men (1975)
• My Dear Victorious Stod (1977)
• The Golden Age of Cricket (1978)
• The Slow Men (1984)
• Archie Jackson (1987)
• Pageant of Cricket (1987)
• Silence of the Heart (1991)
• Bodyline Autopsy (2002)

G

A J Gaston

• Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923 (1924)

Alan Gibson

• Jackson's Year: The Test Matches of 1905 (1966)
• Growing Up With Cricket – Some Memories of a Sporting Education (1985)
• The Cricket Captains of England (1979, revised edition 1989)
• Of Didcot and the Demon: The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson (2009) (Compiled by Anthony Gibson)

William Godfrey – pseudonym of Samuel Youd for his novels about cricket

William Goldwin

• In Certamen Pilae ('On a ball game': i.e., a rural cricket match) (1706)

John Goulstone

• Hambledon – The Men and the Myths (2001)

W G Grace

• Cricket (1891)^[3]
• Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (1899)^[4]

Peter Griffiths

• Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)

Ramachandra Guha

• Wickets in the East (1992)
• Spin and Other Turns (1994)
• An Indian Cricket Omnibus (ed. with TG Vaidyanathan) (1994)
• The Picador Book of Cricket (ed.) (2001)
• A Corner of a Foreign Field – An Indian History of a British sport (2002)
• The States of Indian Cricket (2005)

H

Gideon Haigh

• The Cricket War (1993).
• Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999.
• The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket (2000)
• Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket (2004)
• Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History (2006)
• The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket (2007)

Duncan Hamilton

• Harold Larwood (2009)

Chris Harte

• A History of Australian Cricket (1993)
• The History of the Sheffield Shield (1987)

Fyzul Hassanali

• Captaincy in Cricket (2002)
• Captain out, All Out (2004)

Arthur Haygarth

• Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies, published in 15 volumes between 1862 and 1879

Bernard Hollowood

• Cricket on the Brain (1970)

Gerald Howat

• Learie Constantine (1975)
• Village Cricket (1980),
• Cricketer Militant: the life of Jack Parsons (1980)
• Walter Hammond (1984)
• Plum Warner (1987)
• Len Hutton: The Biography (1988)
• Cricket's Second Golden Age: The Hammond-Bradman Years (1989)
• Cricket Medley (1993)
• Cricket All My Life (autobiography) (2006)

J

C L R James

• Beyond a Boundary (1963)

D R Jardine

• In Quest of the Ashes (1933)

K

JM Kilburn

• In Search of Cricket (1937)
• The Scarborough Cricket Festival (1948)
• History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949 (1950)
• Yorkshire County Cricket (County Cricket Series) (1950)
• Len Hutton

The story of a great cricketer (1951)

• Cricket (Homes of Sport) (with Norman Yardley) (1952)
• Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956 (1959)
• A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket (1963)
• A History of Yorkshire Cricket (1970)
• Thanks to Cricket (1973)
• Overthrows (1975)
• Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn: Edited by Duncan Hamilton (2008)

A E Knight

• The Complete Cricketer (1906)

L

John Lazenby

• Test of Time, John Murray, 2005

Christopher Lee

• From the Sea End – Official History of Sussex CCC (1989)

David Lemmon

• The History of Surrey County Cricket Club (1989)

W J Lewis

• The Language of Cricket (1938)

E V Lucas

• The Hambledon Men (1907)

M

Timothy J McCann

• Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004)

John Major

• (2007: HarperCollins,)

Ashley Mallett

• Trumper: the illustrated biography, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985.

John Marshall

• A History of Sussex Cricket (1959)
• The Duke Who Was Cricket (1961)

G D Martineau

• Bat, Ball, Wicket and All (1954)
• The Field is Full of Shades (1954)
• They Made Cricket (1956)

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

• The Wisden Book of County Cricket (with Frank Warwick) (1981)
• Ball by Ball: The Story of Cricket Broadcasting (1990)

Ronald Mason

• Batsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania (1955)
• Jack Hobbs – A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman (1960)
• Walter Hammond: A biography (1962)
• Sing All A Green Willow (1967)
• 'Plum' Warner's Last Season (1970)
• Warwick Armstrong's Australians (1973)
• Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33 (1982)

Eric Midwinter

• WG Grace: His Life and Times (1981)
• 150 Years: Surrey Cricket Club 1845-1995 (1995)

Keith Miller

• Cricket Crossfire (1956)

Mary Russell Mitford

• Our Village (1832) (this collection of essays contains one on a village cricket match^[5])

Geoffrey Moorhouse

• The Best Loved Game (1979)

Mahiyar Morawalla

• Cricket Cavalcade: Studies of Great Batsmen (1976)
• King of Kings: The Story of Sir Garfield Sobers (1981)

Patrick Morrah

• Alfred Mynn and the Cricketers of his Time (1986)

Ashley Mote

• The Glory Days of Cricket (1997)
• John Nyren's "The Cricketers of My Time" (1998)

Johnnie Moyes

• Australian Cricket: A History, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959.

Sujit Mukherjee

• 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

D.J. Mulvaney

• Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8 (1967)

N

William North

• Nottingham Old Club Match Scores (1832)

John Nyren

• The Young Cricketer's Tutor and the Cricketers of My Time (with Charles Cowden Clarke)(1833)

P

E.W. Padwick

• A Bibliography of Cricket, Library Association, 1984 (2nd edition)
• Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)

J S Penny

• Cricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 – 1800 (year tbc)

Roland Perry

• The Don, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1995.

Playfair

• Playfair Cricket Annual (annually from 1948)

Jack Pollard

• 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

James Pycroft

• The Cricket Field (1851)

R

Simon Rae

• W.G. Grace: A Life (1998)

Vasant Raiji

• Ranji: The Legend and the Man (1963)
• L. P. Jai: Memories of a Great Batsman (edited) (1976)
• The Romance of the Ranji Trophy (1984)
• India's Hambledon Men (1986)
• CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, 1937-1987 (with Anandji Dossa) (1987)
• C. K. Nayudu: The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket (1989)
• Duleep: A Centenary Tribute (2005)
• From Presidency to Pentangular (with Mohandas Menon) (2006)

Netta Rheinberg

• Fair Play – the story of women's cricket (1976) – (with Rachael Heyhoe-Flint)

R. C. Robertson-Glasgow

• Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1940) (1943)
• More Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1945) (1948)
• 46 Not Out – an autobiography (1948)
• Rain Stopped Play (1948)
• The Brighter Side of Cricket (1950)
• All in the Game (1952)
• How To Become A Test Cricketer (1962)
• Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)

Ray Robinson

• Between Wickets (1946)
• The Glad Season (1955)
• The Wildest Tests (1972)
• On Top Down Under (1975)

Peter Roebuck

• Slices of Cricket Unwin, (1982),
• It Never Rains: A Cricketer's Lot, Unwin, (1984) ; ;
• It Sort of Clicks, (with Ian Botham) (1986),
• Great Innings, Blitz (1990),
• Tangled Up in White: Peter Roebuck on Cricket, Hodder & Stoughton, (1992),
• From Sammy to Jimmy: History of Somerset County Cricket Club, Partridge Press (1991),
• Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, (autobiography) Allen & Unwin (2004)
• It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating Cricket's Colourful Characters, Allen & Unwin, (2005)
• In It To Win It: The Australian Cricket Supremacy Allen & Unwin, (2006)

Alan Ross

• Australia 55 (1955)
• Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1956)
• The Cricketer's Companion (editor) (1960)
• Through the Caribbean (1960)
• Australia 63 (1963)
• Ranji – Prince of Cricketers (1983)

Rowland Ryder

• Cricket Calling (1995)

S

Keith A. P. Sandiford

• 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992 (1992; edited with Ronald Hughes and Carlisle Burton)
• Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966 (1998)
• Gary Sobers (1998)
• The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society (1998; edited with Brian Stoddart)

Hugh de Sélincourt

• The Cricket Match (a novel) (1924)

Gerard Siggins

• Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005 (2005)
• 100 Greats of Irish Cricket (with James Fitzgerald, 2006)
• Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland's World Cup adventure (with Trent Johnston, 2007)

HF & AP Squire

• Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket (1951)

Richard Streeton

• PGH Fender: A Biography (1981)

JF Sutton

• Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853, Simpkin & Marshall, 1853

E W Swanton

• Elusive Victory (1951)
• Cricket and the Clock (1952)
• Best Cricket Stories (1953)
• West Indian Adventure 1953-1954 (1954)
• West Indies Revisited – MCC tour 1959-1960 (1960)
• Cricket from All Angles (1968)
• Sort of a Cricket Person (1972)
• Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-1975 (1975)
• Follow On (1977)
• Barclays World of Cricket (General Editor) (1980 – 2nd ed.)
• As I Said at the Time – a Lifetime of Cricket (1983)
• Gubby Allen – Man of Cricket (1985)
• Kent Cricket – a Photographic History 1744-1984 (with C H Taylor) (1985)
• The Essential E W Swanton – the 1980s Observed (1990)
• Last Over – A Life in Cricket (1996)

T

Percy Francis Thomas

• Old English Cricket (1929)

A. A. Thomson

• Cricket My Pleasure (1953)
• Cricket My Happiness (1954)
• Pavilioned in Splendour (1956)
• The Great Cricketer (a biography of Dr W G Grace) (1957 and 1968)
• Odd Men In (1958)
• Hirst and Rhodes (1959, 1986)
• Cricket Bouquet (1961)
• Cricket: The Golden Ages (1961)
• Hutton and Washbrook (1963)
• Cricket: The Great Captains (1965)
• Cricket: The Wars of the Roses (1967)
• Cricketers of My Times (1967)

Geoff Tibballs

• No-balls and Googlies (2007)

U

David Underdown

• Start of Play (2000)

W

H T Waghorn

• Cricket Scores 1730–1773 (1899)
• The Dawn of Cricket (1906)

P F Warner

• How we recovered the Ashes (1904)
• Cricket Between Two Wars (1942)
• Lord's 1787-1945 (1947)
• Long Innings (1951)
• Sir Pelham Warner's Book of Cricket (1945)

Steve Waugh

• Out of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005.

J R Webber

• The Chronicle of W.G. (1998)

Roy Webber

• 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 (1953)
• The County Cricket Championship: A history of the competition from 1873 to the present day (1957)
• Phoenix History of Cricket (1960)
• The Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1963 (concise edition)

Simon Wilde

• Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990)
• Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994)
• Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers (1998)
• Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket (2001)
• Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007)

Martin Wilson

• An Index to Waghorn (Bodyline Books, 2005)

John Wisden

• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (annually from 1864)
• 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 – (defunct)

John Woodcock

• The Times – One Hundred Greatest Cricketers (1998)

Graeme Wright

• Test Decade 1972-1982 (1982)
• A Wisden Collection (2004)
• Wisden at Lord's – An Illustrated Anthology (2005)

Peter Wynne-Thomas

• Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records (1983)
• Give Me Arthur (1985)
• From the Weald to the World (1997)

Y

Graham Yallop

• Lambs to the Slaughter (1979)

Samuel Youd (writing as William Godfrey)

• Malleson at Melbourne (novel) (1956)
• The Friendly Game (fiction) (1957)

External links

• Books on the Ashes

Notes and References

1. A facsimile edition was published in 1997, incorporating additional material by David Rayvern Allen.
2. Web site: Brittenden, Dick. The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket review . LA84 Foundation Digital Archive . Journal of Sport History . 1979 . 21 December 2012.
3. ghost-written by W. Methven Brownlee
4. Ghost-written for him by Arthur Porritt – Alan Gibson: The Cricket Captains of England, 1989, p51.
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20061113113911/http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/ourvillage.htm Our Village