Bibliography of cricket

This page summarises the entries in category:Cricket historians and writers. It attempts to list all significant literary works about cricket by the authors in the category (plus many who should be in the category but are still awaiting creation of a stub or article). The list is sorted by author's name.

David Rayvern Allen

Arlott on Cricket (1984) (editor)
Early Books on Cricket (1987)

HS Altham

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. (ISBN 1-875471-20-0)

F S Ashley-Cooper

Cricket Magazine (1900) - an excellent series 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 ro 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 (2007 edition is the 22nd year)
The ACS Second Eleven Annual (2007 edition is the 23rd year)
The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for members
The ACS Famous Cricketers Series (complete playing records, match by match, of notable cricketers, 99 published in the series so far).

Philip Bailey

Who's Who of Cricketers (with Philip Thorn and Peter Wynne-Thomas) (1984, 1993)

Trevor Bailey

The Greatest of My Time (1968)

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)

Richie Benaud

The Appeal of Cricket
The Modern Game (1995)
Richie Benaud’s Greatest XI (DVD: 2004)
My Spin on Cricket (2005)

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)

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)

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) ISBN 1-875892-54-0 (1998 re-issue).
The Story of My Cricketing Life with hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding in the Cricketer Annual (1930)

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)

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)

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 (a novel) (1936)
To The Wicket (1947)

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 (ISBN 0-86840-004-1)

Tony Cozier

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

James Dance (James Love)

Cricket, an Heroic Poem (1744)

William Denison

Cricket
Sketches of the Players (1846)

W Epps

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

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. (ISBN 0-00-211180-2)
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)

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)

William Godfrey - see Samuel Youd

William Goldwin

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

John Goulstone

Early Club and Village Cricket (1972)
Early Kent Cricketers (year tbc)
Hambledon - The Men and the Myths (2001)
A Cricketing Etymology (2001)

W G Grace

Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (1899) ^[1]

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)

Gideon Haigh

Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999. (ISBN 1-876485-51-5)

Chris Harte

A History of Australian Cricket (1993)

Fyzul Hassanali

Captaincy in Cricket (2002) ISBN 976-8180-49-8
Captain out, All Out (2004)

Arthur Haygarth

Scores & Biographies 1744-1826, volume 1 (1862)

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)

C L R James

Beyond a Boundary (1963)

D R Jardine

In Quest of the Ashes (1933)

A E Knight

The Complete Cricketer (1906)

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)

Timothy J McCann

Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004)

John Major

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years (2007: Harper Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-718364-7)

Ashley Mallett

Trumper: the illustrated biography, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985. (ISBN 0-333-40088-7)

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

Jack Hobbs - A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman (1960)

Eric Midwinter

WG Grace: His Life and Times (1960)

Mary Russell Mitford

Our Village (1832) (this collection of essays contains one on a village cricket match [1])

Geoffrey Moorhouse

The Best Loved Game (1979)

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.

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)

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. (ISBN 0-7329-0827-2)

Playfair

Playfair Cricket Annual

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. (ISBN 1-86309-084-3)
Australian Cricket: The game and the players. Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. (ISBN 0-340-28796-9)
Six and Out: The legend of Australian and New Zealand Cricket, 4th ed., North Sydney, Jack Pollard, 1973 (ISBN 0-909950-32-6)

James Pycroft

The Cricket Field (1851)

Simon Rae

W.G. Grace: A Life (1998)

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)

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)

Hugh de Selincourt

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)

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)

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)

David Underdown

Start of Play (2000)

H T Waghorn

Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 (1899)
The Dawn of Cricket (1906)

P F Warner

Cricket Between Two Wars (1942)
Lord's 1787-1945 (1947)

Steve Waugh

Out of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005. (ISBN 0-670-04198-X)

Roy Webber

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)