The Picador Book of Cricket

This anthology is a tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us.

There was a time when major English writers - P G Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh - took time off to write about cricket, while the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums.

Truly international in its selection, 'The Picador Book Of Cricket' includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of for years, featuring Neville Cardus, C L R James, John Arlott, V S Naipaul, J B Priestley, Jack Fingleon and C B Fry.

The older cricketing nations of England and Australia are well represented; so too are the countries where the game is followed with the greatest passion - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the West Indies.