Bibliography of cricket
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 had more than 10,000 entries.
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;David Rayvern AllenArlott on Cricket Cricket on the Air Early Books on Cricket;HS AlthamMCC Cricket Coaching Book, 1st edition Hampshire County Cricket: The official history of Hampshire County Cricket Club A History of Cricket - various editions, most recently 1962, 1968 Lord's and the MCC The Heart of Cricket: A memoir of H.S. Altham
;John ArlottIndian Summer Gone to the Cricket How to Watch Cricket From Hambledon to Lords Concerning Cricket The Middle Ages of Cricket Gone with the Cricketers Cricket in the Counties Days at the Cricket Maurice Tate The Echoing Green Test Match Diary 1953 Australian Test Journal 1954-55 Alletson's Innings Cricket Journal Cricket Journal 2 Cricket Journal 3 : Cricket on Trial Cricket Journal 4 : The Australian Challenge Vintage Summer 1967 Cricket – The Great Ones : Eight First Class Batsmen Cricket – The Great Bowlers The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints Cricket – The Great All-rounders Cricket – The Great Captains Fred – Portrait of a Fast Bowler The Ashes 1972 A Hundred Years of County Cricket An Eye for Cricket John Arlott's Book of Cricketers Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master A Word from Arlott Arlott on Cricket John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen The Essential John Arlott Basingstoke Boy : The Autobiography
;Geoff ArmstrongA Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Randwick, Ironbark Press, 1992.
;F S Ashley-CooperAt the Sign of the Wicket – a series in Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751Sussex Cricket and Cricketers Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880
;Association of Cricket Statisticians and HistoriansA Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1707-1863 A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Australia A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in India A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in New Zealand A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in North and South America A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Pakistan A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in South Africa A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Sri Lanka A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the West Indies The ACS International Cricket Yearbook The ACS Second Eleven Annual The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for membersThe ACS Famous Cricketers Series.
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;Philip BaileyWho's Who of Cricketers;Trevor BaileyThe Greatest of My Time
;Anthony BarkerThe WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story
;Ralph BarkerTen Great Innings Ten Great Bowlers England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968 Cricketing Family Edrich Innings of a Lifetime, 1954-77 Purple Patches
;Brian BassanoSouth Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970 The West Indies in Australia 1930-31 A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32 Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36 South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960 South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory MCC in South Africa 1938-39 Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23 The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England
;Richie BenaudThe Way of Cricket A Tale of Two Tests Spin Me a Spinner The New Champions Willow Patterns Test Cricket World Series Cup Cricket 1981-82 The Hottest Summer The Ashes 1982-83 Benaud on Reflection The Appeal of Cricket Anything But My Spin on Cricket Over But Not Out
;Henry BentleyA 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
;Keith BoothAtherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval Knowing the Score His Own Enemy The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional Ernest Hayes – Brass in a Golden Age
;Rowland BowenCricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World
;Derek BirleyA Social History of English Cricket The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored
;Sir Don BradmanThe Art of Cricket. Hodder & Stoughton. .The Story of My Cricketing Life with hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding in the Cricketer Annual Farewell to Cricket
;Mike BrearleyThe Art of Captaincy
;Samuel BritcherA list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year x
;Dick Brittenden
- Great Days in New Zealand Cricket
- New Zealand Cricketers
- The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd,
;G B BuckleyFresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket
;Alexander Buzo
- ''Legends of the Baggy Green''
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;Sir Neville CardusA Cricketer's Book Days in the Sun Good Days Australian Summer Autobiography Second Innings Cricket All The Year Close of Play The Playfair Cardus The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints Full Score Cardus on Cricket Cardus in the Covers Play Resumed With Cardus A Fourth Innings with Cardus The Roses Matches 1919-1939 A Cardus for All Seasons Cardus on the Ashes The Wisden Papers of Neville Cardus;Dudley Carew
- England Over, A Cricket Book
- Son of Grief
- To The Wicket
;Richard CashmanPatrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian cricket 'Ave a go, yer mug ! Australian Cricket Crowds from Larrikin to Ocker The "Demon" Spofforth
;Stephen ChalkeRuns in the Memory Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s One More Run At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard Guess My Story: The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer No Coward Soul: The Remarkable Story of Bob Appleyard Ken Taylor: Drawn to Sport A Summer of Plenty: George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906 Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns Five Five Five: Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932 The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past Now I'm 62: The Diary of an Ageing Cricketer A Long Half Hour: Six Cricketers Remembered Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters: The Wonderful World of Wandering Cricket
;Aakash ChopraBeyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other Out of the Blue: Rajasthan's Road to the Ranji Trophy
;"A Country Vicar"Cricket Memories Second Innings The Happy Cricketer
;Tony Cozier
- ''The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket''
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;Bernard DarwinEton v Harrow at Lord's W. G. Grace;James Dance Cricket, an Heroic Poem
;William DenisonCricket
- ''Sketches of the Players''
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;W Epps- ''A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791''
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;Nicholas Felix Felix on the Bat;Jack FingletonCricket Crisis Brightly Fades the Don Brown & Company The Ashes Crown the Year Masters of Cricket Four Chukkas to Australia The Greatest Test of All Fingleton on Cricket, London, Collins, 1972. The Immortal Victor Trumper Batting from Memory
;John FordCricket – A Social History 1700-1835
;Bill FrindallThe Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978
;David FrithThe Fast Men My Dear Victorious Stod The Golden Age of Cricket The Slow Men Archie Jackson Pageant of Cricket Silence of the Heart
- ''Bodyline Autopsy''
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;A J GastonSussex County Cricket 1728-1923;Alan GibsonJackson (cricketer)|Jackson]'s Year: The Test Matches of 1905 Growing Up With Cricket – Some Memories of a Sporting Education The Cricket Captains of England Of Didcot and the Demon: The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson
;William Godfrey – pseudonym of Samuel Youd for his novels about cricket
;William GoldwinIn Certamen Pilae
;John GoulstoneHambledon – The Men and the Myths
;W G GraceCricket Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections
;Peter GriffithsPadwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991
;Ramachandra GuhaWickets in the East Spin and Other Turns An Indian Cricket Omnibus The Picador Book of Cricket A Corner of a Foreign Field – An Indian History of a British sport
- ''The States of Indian Cricket''
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;Gideon HaighThe Cricket War. Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999. The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket;Duncan HamiltonHarold Larwood
;Chris HarteA History of Australian Cricket The History of the Sheffield Shield
;Fyzul HassanaliCaptaincy in Cricket Captain out, All Out
;Arthur HaygarthFrederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies, published in 15 volumes between 1862 and 1879
;Bernard HollowoodCricket on the Brain
;Gerald HowatLearie Constantine Village Cricket,Cricketer Militant: the life of Jack Parsons Walter Hammond Plum Warner Len Hutton: The Biography Cricket's Second Golden Age: The Hammond-Bradman Years Cricket Medley
- ''Cricket All My Life''
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;C L R JamesBeyond a Boundary;D R Jardine
- ''In Quest of the Ashes''
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;J M Kilburn- In Search of Cricket
- The Scarborough Cricket Festival
- History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949
- Yorkshire County Cricket
- Len Hutton: The story of a great cricketer
- Cricket
- Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956
- A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket
- A History of Yorkshire Cricket
- Thanks to Cricket
- Overthrows
- Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn: Edited by Duncan Hamilton
- ''The Complete Cricketer''
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;John LazenbyTest of Time, John Murray, 2005;Christopher LeeFrom the Sea End – Official History of Sussex CCC
;David LemmonThe History of Surrey County Cricket Club
;W J LewisThe Language of Cricket
;E V Lucas
- ''The Hambledon Men''
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;Timothy J McCannSussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century;John MajorMore Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years
;Ashley MallettTrumper: the illustrated biography, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985.
;John MarshallA History of Sussex Cricket The Duke Who Was Cricket
;G D MartineauBat, Ball, Wicket and All The Field is Full of Shades They Made Cricket
;Christopher Martin-JenkinsThe Wisden Book of County Cricket Ball by Ball: The Story of Cricket Broadcasting
;Ronald MasonBatsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania Jack Hobbs – A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman Walter Hammond: A biography Sing All A Green Willow 'Plum' Warner's Last Season Warwick Armstrong's Australians Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33
;Eric MidwinterWG Grace: His Life and Times 150 Years: Surrey Cricket Club 1845-1995
;Keith MillerCricket Crossfire
;Mary Russell MitfordOur Village
; Geoffrey MoorhouseThe Best Loved Game
;Mahiyar MorawallaCricket Cavalcade: Studies of Great Batsmen King of Kings: The Story of Sir Garfield Sobers
;Patrick MorrahAlfred Mynn and the Cricketers of his Time
;Ashley MoteThe Glory Days of Cricket John Nyren's "The Cricketers of My Time"
;Johnnie MoyesAustralian 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
- ''Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8''
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;William NorthNottingham Old Club Match Scores;John Nyren
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; E.W. PadwickA Bibliography of Cricket, Library Association, 1984 Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991;J S PennyCricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 – 1800
;Roland PerryThe Don, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1995.
;PlayfairPlayfair Cricket Annual
;Jack PollardAustralian 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''
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;Simon RaeW.G. Grace: A Life;Vasant RaijiRanji: The Legend and the Man L. P. Jai: Memories of a Great Batsman The Romance of the Ranji Trophy India's Hambledon Men CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, 1937-1987 C. K. Nayudu: The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket Duleep: A Centenary Tribute From Presidency to Pentangular
;Netta RheinbergFair Play – the story of women's cricket –
;R. C. Robertson-GlasgowCricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers More Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers 46 Not Out – an autobiography Rain Stopped Play The Brighter Side of Cricket All in the Game How To Become A Test Cricketer Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
;Ray RobinsonBetween Wickets The Glad Season The Wildest Tests On Top Down Under
;Peter RoebuckSlices of Cricket Unwin, , It Never Rains: A Cricketer's Lot, Unwin, ; ;It Sort of Clicks, , Great Innings, Blitz , Tangled Up in White: Peter Roebuck on Cricket, Hodder & Stoughton, , From Sammy to Jimmy: History of Somerset County Cricket Club, Partridge Press , Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, Allen & Unwin It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating Cricket's Colourful Characters, Allen & Unwin, In It To Win It: The Australian Cricket Supremacy Allen & Unwin,
;Alan RossAustralia 55 Cape Summer and the Australians in England The Cricketer's Companion Through the Caribbean Australia 63 Ranji – Prince of Cricketers
;Rowland Ryder
- ''Cricket Calling''
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;Keith A. P. Sandiford100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992 Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966 Gary Sobers The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society;Hugh de SélincourtThe Cricket Match
;Gerard SigginsGreen Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005 100 Greats of Irish Cricket Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland's World Cup adventure
;HF & AP SquirePre-Victorian Sussex Cricket
;Richard StreetonPGH Fender: A Biography
;JF SuttonNottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853, Simpkin & Marshall, 1853
;E W SwantonElusive Victory Cricket and the Clock Best Cricket Stories West Indian Adventure 1953-1954 West Indies Revisited – MCC tour 1959-1960 Cricket from All Angles Sort of a Cricket Person Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-1975 Follow On Barclays World of Cricket As I Said at the Time – a Lifetime of Cricket Gubby Allen – Man of Cricket Kent Cricket – a Photographic History 1744-1984 The Essential E W Swanton – the 1980s Observed
- ''Last Over – A Life in Cricket''
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;Percy Francis ThomasOld English Cricket;A. A. ThomsonCricket My Pleasure Cricket My Happiness Pavilioned in Splendour The Great Cricketer Odd Men In Hirst and Rhodes Cricket Bouquet Cricket: The Golden Ages Hutton and Washbrook Cricket: The Great Captains Cricket: The Wars of the Roses Cricketers of My Times
;Geoff Tibballs
- ''No-balls and Googlies''
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;David Underdown- ''Start of Play''
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;H T WaghornCricket Scores 1730–1773 The Dawn of Cricket;P F WarnerHow we recovered the Ashes Cricket Between Two Wars Lord's 1787-1945 Long Innings Sir Pelham Warner's Book of Cricket
;Steve WaughOut of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005.
;J R WebberThe Chronicle of W.G.
;Roy WebberThe Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951The Australians in England: A record of the 21 Australian cricket tours of England, 1878 to 1953 The County Cricket Championship: A history of the competition from 1873 to the present day Phoenix History of Cricket The Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1963
;Simon WildeRanji: A Genius Rich and Strange Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius
;Martin WilsonAn Index to Waghorn
;John WisdenWisden Cricketers' Almanack Wisden Cricketers' Almanack AustraliaThe Wisden Cricketer – a monthly magazineWisden Cricket Monthly – merged with The Cricketer to form The Wisden CricketerWisden Asia Cricket –
;John WoodcockThe Times – One Hundred Greatest Cricketers
;Graeme WrightTest Decade 1972-1982 A Wisden Collection Wisden at Lord's – An Illustrated Anthology
;Peter Wynne-ThomasHamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records Give Me Arthur
- ''From the Weald to the World''
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;Graham YallopLambs to the Slaughter;Samuel Youd Malleson at Melbourne
- ''The Friendly Game''