 | A Lot of Hard Yakka: Cricketing Life on the County Circuit by Simon Hughes
Buy used from: £0.01 The most insightful book you'll read about being a professional cricketer.
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 | Rain Men: Madness of Cricket by Marcus Berkmann
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Empathy and sympathy at every turn - and funny for it.
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 | Playing with Fire: The Autobiography by Nasser Hussain
Buy used from: £0.01 How England - and the captain they needed - got better and better. Also a jarring account of the Zimbabwe mess.
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 | On and Off the Field by Ed Smith
Buy used from: £0.16 A thoughtful and introspective account of being a professional sportsman, candidly written and well observed.
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 | Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £3.60 Stands alone as a social and personal history of life and cricket.
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 | A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £0.20 An outstanding and complete history of the game that sits neatly alongside "Beyond a boundary"
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 | Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2005 by Matthew Engel
Buy new: £30.60 / Used from: £7.85 Everything you need to know about the game (but get next year's for the 2005 Ashes story!)
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 | A History of West Indies Cricket by Michael Manley
Buy new: £11.23 / Used from: £7.43 A wonderfully comprehensive and engaging history of the game in the Caribbean, more poignant for recent failures.
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 | Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket by Gideon Haigh
Buy used from: £5.00 Excellent writing on the game from an Australian standpoint.
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 | Dear Merv by Merv Hughes
Buy used from: £26.39 An unusual and entertaining insight to the mail a cricketer receives, with nice commentary from Merv himself.
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