History Inspires Shortlisted Cricket Books

Two books with cricket and the Great War as central themes are among the five shortlisted for the Cricket Book Of The Year award at the Cross British Sports Book Awards.

Christopher Sandford's The Final Over: Cricketers Of Summer 1914 as well as Andrew Renshaw's Wisden on The Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 are up the award with four other titles.

They are Field of Shadows: The England tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell, Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals by Chris Arnot, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan by Peter Oborne and 10 for 10: Headley Verity and the Story of Cricket's Greatest Bowling Feat.

The winner will be announced at a star-studded ceremony at Lord's on 3rd June, hosted by Jonathan Agnew.

Each individual category winner - aside from cricket, there are categories for cycling horse racing, football and rugby - will then be in contention for the Overall CROSS British Sports Book Of The Year, which will be decided by a public online vote.

Cricket Book Of The Year 2015 - shortlist

Title	Author	Publisher
10 for 10: Hedley Verity and the Story of Cricket’s Greatest Bowling Feat	Chris Waters	Wisden
Britain’s Lost Cricket Festivals	Chris Arnot	Aurum Press
Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937	Dan Waddell	Bantam
The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914	Christopher  Sandford	History Press
Wisden on The Great War	Andrew Renshaw	Wisden
Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket              In Pakistan	Peter Oborne	Simon & Schuster

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