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Subject: 805
Posted: 17 October 2012 at 11:40am

Shameless plug for Cricket World's own most recent offering: A Win For The People - the story of the 2012 World Twenty20.

It takes you through the build-up to the tournament from our editorial team's point of view with team previews, statistical overviews, with full match reports from all games, scorecards and exclusive analysis.

It's currently available for Kindle at £7.20 and will be on sale for £9.99 paperback soon (340 pages long)

http://amzn.to/QTTNSD


]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:40:02 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=222040#222040 Cricket Books : Hi everyone. I have just arrived... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=221492#221492 Author: cricketinternational
Subject: 805
Posted: 13 July 2012 at 10:14am

Hi everyone. I have just arrived on this site. It looks ace.
 
Particularly this section, the books. Because we at Cricket International have just published a cricket book. It is a novel called "Guile and Spin" by Stuart Larner.
 
It tells the story of a man who can't stand cricket being enticed by a woman cricketer to resurrect a cricket club in order to get government money. They have to progress through various matches to try to get to the final.
 
He is coached by an Indian Mystic spinner and a bloke who runs a cricket museum in his spare room. 
 
There are some tips in it about concentration strategies and getting into the zone. Its very funny. You can read the first 30 pages free on amazon:
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guile-and-Spin-ebook/dp/B008FBZPHE/
 
well, good luck with your cricket and I hope you enjoy the book
 
]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:14:10 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=221492#221492 Cricket Books : I've read quite a few since... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=203341#203341 Author: Clobber
Subject: 805
Posted: 28 November 2009 at 7:28pm

I've read quite a few since I last put anything in here, I will try to add a few when time permits.]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:28:10 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=203341#203341 Cricket Books : Not these, by any chance: http... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=203007#203007 Author: -JP-
Subject: 805
Posted: 18 November 2009 at 12:24pm

Not these, by any chance: http://www.cricketworld.com/new_products/article/?aid=8962]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:24:45 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=203007#203007 Cricket Books : Hi all, I'm trying to locate... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=202995#202995 Author: blakey
Subject: 805
Posted: 18 November 2009 at 6:06am

Hi all,

I'm trying to locate a book series out of england early 90's.

its about a group of kids who join a cricket club and have a great time playing other teams with mixed results, heaps of fun to read, if anyone can help, that would be much appreciated.

]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:06:11 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=202995#202995 Cricket Books : John Wright's Indian SummersOne... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=153009#153009 Author: -JP-
Subject: 805
Posted: 23 August 2007 at 1:26pm

John Wright's Indian Summers

One of the best cricket books I've read this year - John Wright actually has a pretty interesting story to tell about his time as India coach and it's well written as well. You get a sometimes eye-opening insight to how Indian cricket actually works (or doesn't) and the people he worked with along the way.

Highly recommended.
]]> Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:26:32 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=153009#153009 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77OH... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152097#152097 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 19 August 2007 at 11:00pm

Originally posted by daisy77

OH well don't rub it in...I'm not finished with the book as yet.


*cough*-toldyaso-*cough*]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:00:06 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152097#152097 Cricket Books : OH well don't rub it in...I'm... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152086#152086 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 19 August 2007 at 9:38pm

OH well don't rub it in...I'm not finished with the book as yet. ]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:38:36 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152086#152086 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77LOL.... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152053#152053 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 19 August 2007 at 6:24pm

Originally posted by daisy77

LOL. Well I have started reading "my spin on cricket". I must admit that so far it is not going that great. Kind of boring.


*cough*-toldyaso-*cough*]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:24:38 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152053#152053 Cricket Books : LOL. Well I have started reading... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152052#152052 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 19 August 2007 at 6:10pm

LOL. Well I have started reading "my spin on cricket". I must admit that so far it is not going that great. Kind of boring. ]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:10:18 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=152052#152052 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77Thanks... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=151005#151005 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 15 August 2007 at 2:03am

Originally posted by daisy77

Thanks for the advice.


Certainly. It's just about the best that I've given in ages, so I'd be tremendously appreciative if you were to take it. (If there a begging smiley existed, it'd be here.)]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:03:11 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=151005#151005 Cricket Books : Thanks for the advice. http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150961#150961 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 14 August 2007 at 7:50pm

Thanks for the advice. ]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:50:58 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150961#150961 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77I... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150883#150883 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 14 August 2007 at 3:22pm

Originally posted by daisy77

I have never heard about that one before....


Well, it wasn't published any time recently. Take a gander at AbeBooks, though.]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:22:01 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150883#150883 Cricket Books : I have never heard about that... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150361#150361 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 12 August 2007 at 3:13pm

I have never heard about that one before....]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:13:37 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150361#150361 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77 Originally... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150304#150304 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 12 August 2007 at 12:32am

Originally posted by daisy77

Originally posted by SK Warne

Originally posted by daisy77

Anyone ever read "My Spin on Cricket" by Richie Benaud? I didn't read it yet but I was looking at the pictures in it and hopefully it's good. I don't know a lot about the past players so it should be educational. LOL.
If you're looking for a Benaud book that reads as well as he commentated, this most certainly isn't the one.

Well I guessing that you read it but I think I'll still read it. LOL...I don't have to buy it so there's nothing to lose in reading it....LOL


Aside from your hard-earned money, o'course. Seriously, though, why not give "Anything But ... An Autobiography" a go? Now there's Benaud at his best.]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:32:49 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150304#150304 Cricket Books : Originally posted by SK Warne Originally... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150301#150301 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 12 August 2007 at 12:22am

Originally posted by SK Warne

Originally posted by daisy77

Originally posted by Clobber

<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Michael Vaughan - Calling The Shots</SPAN>Another one I am fairly indifferent about. At times Vaughan speaks his mind quite freely - on Graeme Smith for example - yet as with other books written by guys still playing you are constantly left with the feeling there is more to be said. An interesting, intelligent guy with a lot to say, he can do better I am sure.

I am reading this book at present Clobber. You are right Vaughan really speaks his mind. LOL It's a good thing. It's really interesting as a supporter to know exactly what cricketers are thinking. They have to really decorate their statements to the press but in the books they seem to relax more when making statements and we get a better idea or what they are like. I do remember him speaking freely on Graeme SmithLOLLOL but he does respect him though.
Smith should write a book that would be great to hear what Smith thinks!Big%20smile


Please, no!
LOL...LOLLOLLOL
]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:22:58 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150301#150301 Cricket Books : Originally posted by SK Warne Originally... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150300#150300 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 12 August 2007 at 12:22am

Originally posted by SK Warne

Originally posted by daisy77

Anyone ever read "My Spin on Cricket" by Richie Benaud? I didn't read it yet but I was looking at the pictures in it and hopefully it's good. I don't know a lot about the past players so it should be educational. LOL.


If you're looking for a Benaud book that reads as well as he commentated, this most certainly isn't the one.
Well I guessing that you read it but I think I'll still read it. LOL...I don't have to buy it so there's nothing to lose in reading it....LOL
]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:22:01 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150300#150300 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77 Originally... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150280#150280 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 11 August 2007 at 7:53pm

Originally posted by daisy77

Originally posted by Clobber

<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Michael Vaughan - Calling The Shots</SPAN>Another one I am fairly indifferent about. At times Vaughan speaks his mind quite freely - on Graeme Smith for example - yet as with other books written by guys still playing you are constantly left with the feeling there is more to be said. An interesting, intelligent guy with a lot to say, he can do better I am sure.

I am reading this book at present Clobber. You are right Vaughan really speaks his mind. LOL It's a good thing. It's really interesting as a supporter to know exactly what cricketers are thinking. They have to really decorate their statements to the press but in the books they seem to relax more when making statements and we get a better idea or what they are like. I do remember him speaking freely on Graeme SmithLOLLOL but he does respect him though.
Smith should write a book that would be great to hear what Smith thinks!Big%20smile


Please, no!]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:53:01 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150280#150280 Cricket Books : Originally posted by Clobber 500-1... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150279#150279 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 11 August 2007 at 7:49pm

Originally posted by Clobber



500-1 The Miracle of Headingley 81 - Rob Steen & Alastair McLellanOh dear, I was looking forward to this one only to come away with thoroughly mixed feelings and the overriding conclusion that the authors simply weren't up to the task of conveying the Herculean events of these five days.Steen and McLellan are perhaps not helped by Mike Brearley's sparkling foreword, which only serves to magnify the moribund nature of their own prose as they plunge firstly into a social discourse of 1981 Britain that would embarass a school Sixth Former then into a lifeless view on the state of domestic cricket at the time Most repugnant of all are the pre-match pen portraits of the players, intended to read as though written ahead of the match yet dripping with the benefit of hindsight thus coming across as irredeemably smug - we get knowing nods towards Dilley's batting, Gatting's catching and especially nauseating a discourse on Peter Willey's temperant concluding with "He'd make a top-notch umpire".Fortunately the dramas of days 4 and 5 speak for themselves and finally the books lifts of and rattles along with page turning insistence for a couple of cracking chapters. Perhaps unsurprisingly it is during these passages that the authors take more of a back seat and allow the eyewitness accounts and the amazing events to take centre stage and for once the match has the book it deserves.Thereafter the book almost manages to avoid the inevitable anti-climax by throwing in some semi-interesting chapters (the groundsman's tale, what happened to the match ball and 'where are they now') alongside the sheer mundanity of what it supposedly meant in the long run and the recollections of random spectators (who cares?).This could - and should - have been so much better.


Thanks. That one'd been on my wishlist for ages; it looks like I'd've been wholly disappointed.

Edited by SK Warne - 11 August 2007 at 7:49pm]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:49:14 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150279#150279 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77Anyone... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150278#150278 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 11 August 2007 at 7:46pm

Originally posted by daisy77

Anyone ever read "My Spin on Cricket" by Richie Benaud? I didn't read it yet but I was looking at the pictures in it and hopefully it's good. I don't know a lot about the past players so it should be educational. LOL.


If you're looking for a Benaud book that reads as well as he commentated, this most certainly isn't the one.]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:46:47 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150278#150278 Cricket Books : Originally posted by daisy77 Originally... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150277#150277 Author: SK Warne
Subject: 805
Posted: 11 August 2007 at 7:45pm

Originally posted by daisy77

Originally posted by -JP-


Beating The Field (The Story Of My Life)


That's one of them anyway. Are there any more?



Thanks.....I will have to get my hands on a copy of that book!



Save your money; it's a mind-numbingly contrived effort.]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:45:31 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=150277#150277 Cricket Books : Anyone ever read &#034;My Spin... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=149964#149964 Author: daisy77
Subject: 805
Posted: 10 August 2007 at 12:01am

Anyone ever read "My Spin on Cricket" by Richie Benaud? I didn't read it yet but I was looking at the pictures in it and hopefully it's good. I don't know a lot about the past players so it should be educational. LOL. ]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:01:06 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=149964#149964 Cricket Books : 500-1 The Miracle of Headingley... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=147382#147382 Author: Clobber
Subject: 805
Posted: 27 July 2007 at 10:34am

500-1 The Miracle of Headingley 81 - Rob Steen & Alastair McLellan

Oh dear, I was looking forward to this one only to come away with thoroughly mixed feelings and the overriding conclusion that the authors simply weren't up to the task of conveying the Herculean events of these five days.

Steen and McLellan are perhaps not helped by Mike Brearley's sparkling foreword, which only serves to magnify the moribund nature of their own prose as they plunge firstly into a social discourse of 1981 Britain that would embarass a school Sixth Former then into a lifeless view on the state of domestic cricket at the time

Most repugnant of all are the pre-match pen portraits of the players, intended to read as though written ahead of the match yet dripping with the benefit of hindsight thus coming across as irredeemably smug - we get knowing nods towards Dilley's batting, Gatting's catching and especially nauseating a discourse on Peter Willey's temperant concluding with "He'd make a top-notch umpire".

Fortunately the dramas of days 4 and 5 speak for themselves and finally the books lifts of and rattles along with page turning insistence for a couple of cracking chapters. Perhaps unsurprisingly it is during these passages that the authors take more of a back seat and allow the eyewitness accounts and the amazing events to take centre stage and for once the match has the book it deserves.

Thereafter the book almost manages to avoid the inevitable anti-climax by throwing in some semi-interesting chapters (the groundsman's tale, what happened to the match ball and 'where are they now') alongside the sheer mundanity of what it supposedly meant in the long run and the recollections of random spectators (who cares?).

This could - and should - have been so much better.




Edited by Clobber - 27 July 2007 at 10:38am]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:34:42 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=147382#147382 Cricket Books : Yes it was, sorry. Its been that... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=145523#145523 Author: scuudz
Subject: 805
Posted: 16 July 2007 at 4:45pm

Yes it was, sorry.  Its been that kind of a month!!]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:45:25 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=145523#145523 Cricket Books : Sorry Scuudz, it was wasted on... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144976#144976 Author: W.G.
Subject: 805
Posted: 13 July 2007 at 12:15pm

Sorry Scuudz, it was wasted on you!]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:15:27 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144976#144976 Cricket Books : You, of all people, should know.... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144660#144660 Author: scuudz
Subject: 805
Posted: 11 July 2007 at 1:07am

You, of all people, should know.]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:07:56 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144660#144660 Cricket Books : Doctor Who? http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144610#144610 Author: W.G.
Subject: 805
Posted: 10 July 2007 at 5:33pm

Doctor Who?]]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:33:23 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144610#144610 Cricket Books : Unfortunately, he is not on this... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144088#144088 Author: scuudz
Subject: 805
Posted: 05 July 2007 at 3:59pm

Unfortunately, he is not on this forum now, is he?  Although, it might just be a matter of time.  We've already got the Dr. on board.

]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:59:48 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144088#144088 Cricket Books : hopefully he has http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144085#144085 Author: Clobber
Subject: 805
Posted: 05 July 2007 at 3:57pm

hopefully he has]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:57:26 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144085#144085 Cricket Books : Has anyone read Wally Hammond&#039;s... http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144081#144081 Author: scuudz
Subject: 805
Posted: 05 July 2007 at 3:48pm

Has anyone read Wally Hammond's Cricket: My World ?
 
 
]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=805&PID=144081#144081