Cricket Books
Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell
$45.00 – Hard back / Hardie Grant
Greg Chappell was the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation. Though he had an appetite for big scores, it was his calm brow and courtly manner that bowlers found just as disheartening. When he followed his bro... Buy or find out more →
Australia: Story Of A Cricket Country
$89.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
More than a comprehensive history, this ground-breaking volume is a colourful, insightful and affectionate portrait of Australian cricket. A selection of Australia's best writers share their thoughts on different aspects... Buy or find out more →
In The Firing Line: Diary Of A Season
$24.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
Ed Cowan, opening left-hand batsman for Tasmania, has always been a bit of a scribbler. It started with to-do lists and notes to self, but then he started keeping a cricket diary – a ‘batting bible’ with thoughts on the ... Buy or find out more →
Brett Lee: My Life
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Ebury Press
Brett Lee is known throughout the cricketing world as one of the fastest and most exciting pace bowlers to play the game. Intimidating while charming, decent yet ferocious, he is known for his quick-one liners as much as... Buy or find out more →
In The Best Interests Of The Game: The Darrell Hair Story
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at The Oval in 2006, Darrell Hair′s observations and charges of ball tampering against Pakistan led to the visitors refusing to continue the game.What followed more befits ... Buy or find out more →
Sticky Wicket: A Decade Of Change In World Cricket
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Malcolm Speed has been involved first-hand with some of the most tumultuous events in the history of cricket.
He has been burned in effigy on several occasions; described in The Hindustan Times as ′one of the most dislik... Buy or find out more →
Merv Hughes' Best Sporting Insults
$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A hilarious collection of killer lines from the mouths of the sporting greats of cricket, rugby, footie and even the golf course - a must have for any sports fan.
Australian sportsmen are known worldwide for their hilari... Buy or find out more →
Skullduggery
$27.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
From the pitch to the commentary box, Kerry ′Skull′ O′Keeffe has covered Australian cricket from every angle for more than thirty years. His distinctive laugh, his self-deprecating humour and his incisive opinions have m... Buy or find out more →
The Captains
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
From Australia's first Test cricket captain Dave Gregory, through to the current captain Ricky Ponting, Malcolm Knox's new book tells the colourful story of how Australian cricket has evolved since it's earliest days, ho... Buy or find out more →
Sphere Of Influence: Writings On Cricket And Its Discontents
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp and disturbing focus.
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a... Buy or find out more →
The Captain's Year 2010
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Ricky Ponting′s Australian cricket team began their 2009-10 season with a resounding victory in the Champions Trophy in South Africa. Ricky then headed straight to India for a highly competitive one-day series, back home... Buy or find out more →
Standing My Ground
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
MATTHEW HAYDEN was one of the most commanding batsmen the game has ever seen - and one of its great enigmas. A devout Catholic, and a ruthless on-field sledger. A brutal enforcer, and a soft-hearted family man. Australia... Buy or find out more →
Harold Larwood
$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
- Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year 2009
- Winner of the Sydney Morning Herald Sport & Style Best Sports Book of the Year
- Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009
Harold Larwood is an England cricket... Buy or find out more →
First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers And The Backyards That Made Them
$27.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
Australia has dominated test cricket over the last 130 years. But it′s not the formal cricket academies or high-end coaching that are responsible for the Australian cricket team′s winning ways. The backyard has been the ... Buy or find out more →
Cricket Australia Season Guide 2009 2010
$24.95 – Paperback book / Slattery Media Group
Get ready for a sensational summer of cricket. The new Australian cricket season is almost here, and Cricket Australia Season Guide 2009-10 is the perfect accompaniment for the year ahead.In an exclusive interview, Austr... Buy or find out more →
Cricket Dreaming The Rites Of Summer
$24.99 – Paperback book / Brolga Publishing
There's more to cricket than bat and ball. Beyond the playing or the watching, beyond the experience of the sport, cricket is a part of the Australian identity. At every step of our country's history, cricket has been th... Buy or find out more →
Cricket Skills Batting Know The Game
$10.95 – Paperback book / A & C Black
The Know the Game Skillsseries is the perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying their sport - by giving plenty of simple ... Buy or find out more →
The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Meet Moof, Womble, Castaway, Churchyard and One Dad, a dog called Six Bitsm and a van known as the Bog Roll Express. Every summer weekend, the parks of Australia turn themselves over to countless thousands of club cricke... Buy or find out more →
Inside Story: Unlocking 100 Years Of Australia's Official Cricket Archives
$69.95 – Paperback book /
Cricket Australia has never before opened its Board minutes to scrutiny. 100 Not Out: A Century of Cricket Australia is the first full, frank and fearless account of 100 years of the Board's control of Australian cricket... Buy or find out more →
All Out: The Ashes 2006 - 2007
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
An irresistible book for cricket fans - Australia's leading cricket writer on the tour of a lifetime.
The 2006-07 Ashes tour is the most feverishly anticipated in many years. An English team will meet an Australian one d... Buy or find out more →
Cricket Kings
$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Step into the lives of a team of regular middle-aged men who meet each week to play cricket in their local park. They don't seem to be extraordinary - they are just like the rest of us - but like everyone, they each have... Buy or find out more →
Line And Strength: The Complete Story
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
From working the land in Narromine to winning cricket's World Cup three times, Glenn McGrath's life has been characterised by fierce determination and an unerring will to succeed, despite the odds. Now following his reti... Buy or find out more →
Inside Out: Writings On Cricket Culture
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
From one of the finest writers on the game comes Inside Out, Gideon Haigh's latest despatches from the crease.
In 2008, he celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth and 75 years of Bodyline; ponders the quintessence of... Buy or find out more →
The Bumper Book Of Cricket
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Quercus
The Bumper Book of Cricket delivers a wealth of information about every aspect of the world’s most popular summer game. Beyond this sumptuous feast of cricket history, facts and feats – enlivened by anecdotes, jokes, quo... Buy or find out more →
Our Don Bradman: My Story Diary Of Victor Mcdonald Sydney 1932
$19.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Victor McDonald is cricket mad. He plays for his school team and his dream is to meet his cricketing hero, Don Bradman. But Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression. Work isn't easy to come by. Victor's father ha... Buy or find out more →
The Ashes 2009: Good Enough
$27.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Ashes 09 is the only essential account of the head-to-head duel that stopped both nations.
In 2005, it was England's summer. In 2006-7, Australia had its revenge. 2009 loomed as the tightest of contests in Test cricket's... Buy or find out more →
The Greatest: The Glory Years Of Australian Cricket
$15.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
From 1993 to 2008 the Australian cricket team reached the highest of heights. They won three world cups in a row and sixteen consecutive test matches. They continually dominated England in the Ashes, destroyed the once g... Buy or find out more →
Captain's Diary 2009
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Few Australian cricket captains have had a tougher time than that experienced by Ricky Ponting in 2008-09 - a controversial Test tour of India, series home and away against South Africa, more than 30 ODIs, the ICC World ... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Encyclopedia Of Cricket
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Carlton Books
A comprehensive, single-volume illustrated reference book that covers various major facets of cricket. It includes an in-depth records section, an integral part of cricket lore. It also offers coverage of England's winte... Buy or find out more →
Cricket War
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
It was the end of cricket as we knew it - and the beginning of cricket as we know it. In May 1977, the cricket world woke to discover that a businessman called Kerry Packer had signed 35 elite international players for h... Buy or find out more →