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November 18, 2017 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Books to read at the cricket? Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy by Charlie Campbell

Edwardian writes Charlie Campbell is the captain of the Author’s XI. I’ve seen these roosters a couple of times at the Wormsley ‘Words and Wickets’ festival.  In 2014 there was a tent displaying the latest Jaguar cars and the food was provided by Jamie Oliver. I marvelled at the burgers

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October 23, 2017 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Life Beyond the Airing Cupboard by former Sussex captain John Barclay – a holiday reading review by Ged Ladd

I read Life Beyond The Airing Cupboard in September 2009, while Daisy and I were on a short holiday in Burgundy. We had joined Daisy’s sister, Lavender and her husband, Antonio Ordóñez for a few days, then we stayed on for an extra day or two before returning home. Lavender

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October 12, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii / Features

Cricket computer game graphics through the ages

Last week we suggested that maybe the golden age of cricket videogame graphics had passed; that maybe player likenesses would from now on always be too convincing and insufficiently amusing. Let’s take a look back on how things have changed, starting with the most recent funny graphics and working our

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October 4, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Ashes Cricket to be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One

What do you love most about cricket videogames? If you answered “the deep customisation options” then good news – the developers of the upcoming Ashes Cricket have been listening to you. “Time and time again players tell us the feature they love most about our cricket games is the deep

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July 12, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Cricket Captain 2017 – PC review

Cricket Captain – formerly International Cricket Captain – has been updated pretty much annually ever since it first came out in 1998. It’s always been a must for fans and also for administrators. However, we haven’t actually reviewed it in ages, so we thought we’d better address that. Let’s deal

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January 11, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Don Bradman Cricket 17 is the best cricket action game there’s ever been (+ video)

We’ll freely admit that we haven’t actually played Don Bradman Cricket 17 yet, but our keen deduction skills have allowed us to reach the conclusion that is the best ever cricket action game anyway. Our reasoning, in short: Don Bradman Cricket 14 was the best cricket action game at the

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October 25, 2016 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Unguarded by Jonathan Trott – book review

Sam writes: My shelves are groaning under the weight of cricket autobiographies. The best – among them Coming Back To Me by Marcus Trescothick and Nasser Hussain’s Playing With Fire – are well-thumbed. The others tend to blur together. Tales of pushy parents, age group potential, Test debuts and tearful

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August 1, 2016 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

The Periodic Table of Cricket by John Stern – book review

We own a periodic table. Mostly it’s a footrest, but periodically – typically when we have visitors – it reverts to being a table. Apparently there’s another kind of periodic table too which lays out all the chemical elements according to atomic number and whatnot. The Periodic Table of Cricket

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April 13, 2016 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Test Cricket by Jarrod Kimber – book review

Full disclosure: We went to Jarrod’s wedding and were also sent a free book to review. However, we did also have to pay £3 in bail money to release said free book from a Royal Mail prison after it had been charged with insufficient postage, so we pretty much balance

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December 9, 2015 Cricket products

A Nightwatchman for Christmas?

Send him in. Let him weather the marketing and do all the preparations and cooking. Then you can just swan in on Boxing Day to eat leftovers and get drunk. No, this is Nightwatchman with an upper-case N. The Wisden cricket quarterly is doing gift packages. If you don’t know

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