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December 2, 2015 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / Regulars

Cricket books for Boxing Day Test Eve

We know that many of you like to pass the time on Boxing Day Test Eve by giving people presents. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the better cricket-themed books on offer this year. These are just some of the newer ones. Take a look at the book review

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November 23, 2015 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / Regulars

Last in the Tin Bath – a review of David Lloyd’s autobiography

Back when we reviewed Start the Car: The World According to Bumble, we suggested that rather than majoring on Lloyd’s zaniness, they might have been better off writing a traditional autobiography. Well this is what they’ve done. The result is indeed a better book. For those that don’t know, before

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November 8, 2015 Cricket products

Death of a Gentleman’s out on DVD

We’ve all bought films on DVD because we feel guilty about going to Croatia instead of attending the premiere, haven’t we? To be honest, we’d have bought it anyway. It’s a great film. Weirdly lovely, despite the somewhat bleak subject matter. Plus, as an added bonus, owning the DVD allows

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February 5, 2015 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / England

KP: The Autobiography – book review

A guest review of KP: The Autobiography by Dandy Dan. Having met KP and most of team, I feel I’m very qualified to review this book – especially as he came across to me as actually being all right. I didn’t buy it. I got it out from the library.

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October 7, 2014 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / England

Is Kevin Pietersen’s book worth buying?

We didn’t get a review copy of KP: The Autobiography. Apparently it was already getting enough attention without a review appearing here in about six months’ time. We wonder whether we need to read it. The two-page email from Rahul Dravid about how to play spin that features within it

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September 10, 2014 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Thank you to Childish Things

A quick thank you to Childish Things, the guys who make International Cricket Captain, for agreeing to sponsor the site for the next month (although the hours we’ve lost to the game over the years, frankly they owe us). If you’re not running ad-blocking software, you’ll see a big, long

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August 22, 2014 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

England v India ODI fantasy league

All Out Cricket’s Test series fantasy league is over. Our mini league, The Kingdom, was won by… er… did anyone actually check before they deleted the league? We’d guess it was either Balladeer’s Bhangra-Morris Fusion side or Patrick’s p = mv, both of which were almost certainly in the top

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July 8, 2014 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

All Out Cricket fantasy game for England v India series

If you don’t already know, All Out Cricket magazine do a fantasy league thing. We’ve entered and set up a mini league. If you want to join and compete against us, it’s called The Kingdom and the not-so-secret key to gain access is ‘Rob Key’. Our team’s called The Courtiers.

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May 11, 2014 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Don Bradman Cricket 14 review | Xbox 360 and PS3

Buy Don Bradman Cricket 14 from Amazon No, you haven’t missed 13 iterations of this game. That 14’s the year. Quite why the year’s relevant when the game’s named after a guy who died 13 years ago is beyond us, but there you go. Why Don Bradman? It’s unusual to

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March 18, 2014 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Start the Car: The World According to Bumble – book review

We finally got round to reading this. Oddly, this hasn’t clarified whether it’s worth reading or not. A friend who follows cricket fairly closely but who at the time hadn’t watched much of Sky’s coverage, once asked us about David Lloyd. He’d got the impression that Bumble was this self-consciously

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