List of works by cricket historians and writers

This page summarises the entries in . 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
* "At the Sign of the Wicket" (1900) - a series in "Cricket Magazine" 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) [A facsimile edition was published in 1997, incorporating additional material by David Rayvern Allen.]

;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" (1990) (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)

;W G Grace
* "Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections" (1899) [Ghost-written for him by Arthur Porritt - Alan Gibson: "The Cricket Captains of England", 1989, p51.]

;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)
* "The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket" (2000)
* "Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket" (2004)
* "Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History" (2006)
* "The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket" (2007) ;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)

;JM Kilburn
*"In Search of Cricket" (1937)
*"The Scarborough Cricket Festival" (1948)
*"History Of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949" (1950)
*"Yorkshire County Cricket (County Cricket Series)" (1950)
*"Len Hutton: The story of a great cricketer" (1951)
*"Cricket (Homes of Sport)" (with Norman Yardley) (1952)
*"Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956" (1959)
*"A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket" (1963)
*"A History of Yorkshire Cricket" (1970)
*"Thanks to Cricket" (1973)
*"Overthrows" (1975)
*"Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn" (2008)

;A E Knight
* "The Complete Cricketer" (1906)

;John Lazenby
* "Test of Time", John Murray, 2005

;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
* "Batsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania" (1955)
* "Jack Hobbs - A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman" (1960)
* "Walter Hammond: A biography" (1962)
* "Sing All A Green Willow" (1967)
* "'Plum' Warner's Last Season" (1970)
* "Warwick Armstrong's Australians" (1973)
* "Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33" (1982)

;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 [http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/ourvillage.htm] )

; 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)

;JF Sutton
* "Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853", Simpkin & Marshall, 1853

;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 Playfair Book of Cricket Records", Playfair Books, 1951
* "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)
* "The Book of Cricket Records", Playfair Books, 1963 (concise edition)

;Simon Wilde
* "Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers" (1998)

;Martin Wilson
* "An Index to Waghorn" (Bodyline Books, 2005)

;Wisden
* "Wisden Cricketers Almanack" (annual)
* "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia"
* "The Wisden Cricketer" - a monthly magazine
* "Wisden Cricket Monthly" - merged with "The Cricketer" to form "The Wisden Cricketer"
* "Wisden Asia Cricket" - (defunct)

;John Woodcock
* "The Times - One Hundred Greatest Cricketers" (1998)

;Graeme Wright
* "Wisden at Lord's - An Illustrated Anthology" (2005)

;Peter Wynne-Thomas
* "Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records" (1983)
* "Give Me Arthur" (1985)
* "From the Weald to the World" (1997)

;Samuel Youd (writing as William Godfrey)
* "Malleson at Melbourne" (novel) (1956)
* "The Friendly Game" (fiction) (1957)

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External links

* [http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/MEDIA/PRINT/ASHES/ Books on the Ashes]