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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2011 Edited by Scyld Berry (Published by John Wisden)
Wisden on the Ashes Edited by Steven Lynch (Published by John Wisden)
By definition, any Wisden can only be as good as the previous cricketing year it describes in such painstaking detail. It’s why the 1982 and 2006 editions command higher prices than those [...]

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No Holding Back – The Autobiography by Michael Holding with Edward Hawkins
For much of this book I imagined that the title was no more than a little pun on this cricketing legend’s name – perhaps a nod to his fearsome bowling. Then, two-thirds of the way through, with his early life, cricketing, broadcasting and business [...]

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Inside the Box – My Life with Test Match Special – book review
Peter Baxter joined the BBC in 1965.  In 1973 he was appointed Radio Cricket Producer and took charge of the Test Match Special programme. Before retiring from the BBC in 2007, Peter Baxter had worked for more than 40 years on BBC [...]

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My Favourite Cricketer edited by John Stern
Hardback, Wisden, pp 186, £13.49
The concept of this book couldn’t be simpler – John Stern has collected 46 essays from the past five years of the Wisden Cricketer magazine’s My Favourite Cricketer page. Being a cricket supporter, you may already be familiar with the feature.
Chosen by journalists, broadcasters, [...]

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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2010
Pub: John Wisden, pp. 1728, £45
Who buys Wisden? That’s only a partially rhetorical question. I’m interested to know, because it would be too easy to answer; “Why, cricket enthusiasts, stupid.” Well, it’s not quite that obvious or simple. I have been, by any yardstick, a cricket enthusiast since the Ashes summer of [...]

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