Bibliography of cricket

This is a bibliography of literary and historical works about cricket. The list is sorted by author's name. It is inevitably highly selective. The 1984 edition of E. W. Padwick's A Bibliography of Cricket (see below) had more than 10,000 entries.

A

 * David Rayvern Allen
 * Arlott on Cricket (1984) (editor)
 * Cricket on the Air (1985) (editor)
 * Early Books on Cricket (1987)


 * HS Altham
 * MCC Cricket Coaching Book, 1st edition (1952)
 * Hampshire County Cricket: The official history of Hampshire County Cricket Club (1957)
 * A History of Cricket (with E W Swanton) – various editions, most recently 1962 (hb), 1968 (pb)
 * Lord's and the MCC (with John Arlott) (1967)
 * The Heart of Cricket: A memoir of H.S. Altham (1967)


 * John Arlott
 * Indian Summer (1946)
 * Gone to the Cricket (1948)
 * How to Watch Cricket (1948; rev 1983)
 * From Hambledon to Lords (1948)
 * Concerning Cricket (1949)
 * The Middle Ages of Cricket (1949)
 * Gone with the Cricketers (1950)
 * Cricket in the Counties (1950)
 * Days at the Cricket (1951)
 * Maurice Tate (1951)
 * The Echoing Green (1952)
 * Test Match Diary 1953 (1953)
 *  Australian Test Journal 1954-55 (1955)
 * Alletson's Innings (1957)
 * Cricket Journal (1958)
 * Cricket Journal 2 (1959)
 * Cricket Journal 3 : Cricket on Trial (1960)
 * Cricket Journal 4 : The Australian Challenge (1961)
 * Vintage Summer 1967 (1967)
 * Cricket – The Great Ones : Eight First Class Batsmen (1967)
 * Cricket – The Great Bowlers (1968)
 * The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with Neville Cardus) (1969)
 * Cricket – The Great All-rounders (1970)
 * Cricket – The Great Captains (1971)
 * Fred – Portrait of a Fast Bowler (1971)
 * The Ashes 1972 (1972)
 * A Hundred Years of County Cricket (1973)
 * An Eye for Cricket (with Patrick Eagar) (1979)
 * John Arlott's Book of Cricketers (1979)
 * Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master (1981)
 * A Word from Arlott (1983)
 * Arlott on Cricket (1984) (edited by David Rayvern Allen)
 * John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen (1986)
 * The Essential John Arlott (1989)
 * Basingstoke Boy : The Autobiography (1989)


 * Geoff Armstrong
 * A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Randwick, Ironbark Press, 1992. (ISBN 1-875471-20-0)


 * F S Ashley-Cooper
 * At the Sign of the Wicket (1900) – a series in Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
 * Sussex Cricket and Cricketers (1901)
 * Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 (1901)
 * The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 (1924)
 * Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880 (1929)


 * Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
 * A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1707-1863 (1985)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles (2nd ed 1982)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Australia (2nd ed 1983)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in India (1986)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in New Zealand (1981)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in North and South America (1987)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Pakistan (1989)
 * A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in South Africa (1981)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Sri Lanka (1987)
 * A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the West Indies (1984)
 * The ACS International Cricket Yearbook (2013 edition is the 28th year)
 * The ACS Second Eleven Annual (2013 edition is the 29th year)
 * The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for members
 * The ACS Famous Cricketers Series (complete playing records, match by match, of notable cricketers, 100 were published in the series).

B

 * Philip Bailey
 * Who's Who of Cricketers (co-edited) (1984, second edition 1993)


 * Trevor Bailey
 * The Greatest of My Time (1968)


 * Anthony Barker
 * The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story (1998)


 * Ralph Barker
 * Ten Great Innings (1964)
 * Ten Great Bowlers (1967)
 * England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968 (with Irving Rosenwater) (1969)
 * Cricketing Family Edrich (1976)
 * Innings of a Lifetime, 1954-77 (1982)
 * Purple Patches (1987)


 * Brian Bassano
 * South Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970 (1979)
 * The West Indies in Australia 1930-31 (with Rick Smith) (1990)
 * A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32 (with Rick Smith) (1991) (based on the diary of Ken Viljoen)
 * Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36 (1993)
 * South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960 (1996)
 * South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory (1996)
 * MCC in South Africa 1938-39 (1997)
 * Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings (2001)
 * Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23 (2004)
 * The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa (with Rick Smith) (2007)
 * Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England (with Rick Smith) (2012)


 * Richie Benaud
 * The Way of Cricket (1961)
 * A Tale of Two Tests (1962)
 * Spin Me a Spinner (1963)
 * The New Champions (1966)
 * Willow Patterns (1969)
 * Test Cricket (1982)
 * World Series Cup Cricket 1981-82 (1982)
 * The Hottest Summer (1983)
 * The Ashes 1982-83 (1983)
 * Benaud on Reflection (1984)
 * The Appeal of Cricket (1995)
 * Anything But (1998)
 * My Spin on Cricket (2005)
 * Over But Not Out (2010)


 * Henry Bentley
 * A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and all other principal matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive (1823)


 * Keith Booth
 * Atherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval (1996)
 * Knowing the Score (1998) (a history of scoring)
 * His Own Enemy (2000) (biography of Ted Pooley)
 * The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock (2002)
 * George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional (2007)
 * Ernest Hayes – Brass in a Golden Age (2009)


 * Rowland Bowen
 * Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (1970)


 * Derek Birley
 * A Social History of English Cricket (1999)
 * The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored (1979)


 * Sir Don Bradman
 * The Art of Cricket. Hodder & Stoughton. (1958) ISBN 1-875892-54-0 (1998 re-issue).
 * The Story of My Cricketing Life with hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding in the Cricketer Annual (1930)
 * Farewell to Cricket (1949)


 * Mike Brearley
 * The Art of Captaincy (1985)


 * Samuel Britcher
 * A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year x (annual series where x = 1790 to 1800)


 * Dick Brittenden
 * Great Days in New Zealand Cricket (1958)
 * New Zealand Cricketers (1961)
 * The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket (1977) A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd, ISBN 978-0589010331


 * Gerald Brodribb
 * Next Man In : A survey of cricket laws and customs (1953, 1985, 1996)
 * Hit for Six (1960)
 * Felix on the Bat: Being a Memoir of Nicholas Felix (1962). (NB: See also Nicholas Wanostrocht: Felix on the Bat (1845)
 * The Croucher: A Biography of Gilbert Jessop (1974)
 * Maurice Tate: a biography (1977)
 * The Lost Art (1997) (A history of underarm bowling)


 * G B Buckley
 * Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket (1935)
 * Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket (1937)


 * Alexander Buzo
 * Legends of the Baggy Green (2004)

C

 * Sir Neville Cardus
 * A Cricketer's Book (1922)
 * Days in the Sun (1924)
 * Good Days (1934)
 * Australian Summer (1937)
 * Autobiography (1947)
 * Second Innings (1950)
 * Cricket All The Year (1952)
 * Close of Play (1956)
 * The Playfair Cardus (1963)
 * The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with John Arlott) (1969)
 * Full Score (1970)
 * Cardus on Cricket (1977)
 * Cardus in the Covers (1978)
 * Play Resumed With Cardus (1979)
 * A Fourth Innings with Cardus (1981)
 * The Roses Matches 1919-1939 (1982)
 * A Cardus for All Seasons (1985)
 * Cardus on the Ashes (1989)
 * The Wisden Papers of Neville Cardus (Wisden Papers) (1989) (edited by Benny Green)


 * Dudley Carew
 * England Over, A Cricket Book (1927)
 * Son of Grief (novel; 1936)
 * To The Wicket (1947)


 * Arthur Carman
 * Cricket Almanack of New Zealand
 * New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1974


 * Richard Cashman
 * Patrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian cricket (1980)
 * 'Ave a go, yer mug ! Australian Cricket Crowds from Larrikin to Ocker (1984)
 * The "Demon" Spofforth (1990) (ISBN 0-86840-004-1)


 * Stephen Chalke
 * Runs in the Memory (1997)
 * Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s (1999)
 * One More Run (2000) (with Bryan "Bomber" Wells)
 * At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard)
 * Guess My Story: The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer (2003)
 * No Coward Soul: The Remarkable Story of Bob Appleyard (2003) (with Derek Hodgson)
 * Ken Taylor: Drawn to Sport (2006)
 * A Summer of Plenty: George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906 (2006)
 * Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns (2007)
 * Five Five Five: Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932 (2007)
 * The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past (2008)
 * Now I'm 62: The Diary of an Ageing Cricketer (a novel) (2010)
 * A Long Half Hour: Six Cricketers Remembered (2010)
 * Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket (2012)
 * Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters: The Wonderful World of Wandering Cricket (2013) (with Anthony Gibson)


 * Aakash Chopra
 * Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other (2009)
 * Out of the Blue: Rajasthan's Road to the Ranji Trophy (2011)


 * "A Country Vicar"
 * Cricket Memories (1930)
 * Second Innings (1933)
 * The Happy Cricketer (1946)


 * Tony Cozier
 * The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket (1978 – foreword by Sir Garfield Sobers)

D

 * Bernard Darwin
 * Eton v Harrow at Lord's (1926)
 * W. G. Grace (1934)


 * James Dance (a.k.a. James Love)
 * Cricket, an Heroic Poem (1744)


 * William Denison
 * Cricket
 * Sketches of the Players (1846)

E

 * W Epps
 * A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791 (1799)

F

 * Nicholas Felix (Nicholas Wanostrocht)
 * Felix on the Bat (1845)


 * Jack Fingleton
 * Cricket Crisis (1947)
 * Brightly Fades the Don (1949)
 * Brown & Company (1951)
 * The Ashes Crown the Year (1954)
 * Masters of Cricket (1958)
 * Four Chukkas to Australia (1960)
 * The Greatest Test of All (1961)
 * Fingleton on Cricket, London, Collins, 1972. (ISBN 0-00-211180-2)
 * The Immortal Victor Trumper (1978)
 * Batting from Memory (1981)


 * John Ford
 * Cricket – A Social History 1700-1835 (1972)


 * Bill Frindall
 * The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978 (1979)


 * David Frith
 * The Fast Men (1975)
 * My Dear Victorious Stod (1977)
 * The Golden Age of Cricket (1978)
 * The Slow Men (1984)
 * Archie Jackson (1987)
 * Pageant of Cricket (1987)
 * Silence of the Heart (1991)
 * Bodyline Autopsy (2002)

G

 * A J Gaston
 * Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923 (1924)


 * Alan Gibson
 * Jackson's Year: The Test Matches of 1905 (1966)
 * Growing Up With Cricket – Some Memories of a Sporting Education (1985)
 * The Cricket Captains of England (1979, revised edition 1989)
 * Of Didcot and the Demon: The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson (2009) (Compiled by Anthony Gibson)


 * William Godfrey – pseudonym of Samuel Youd for his novels about cricket


 * William Goldwin
 * In Certamen Pilae ('On a ball game': i.e., a rural cricket match) (1706)


 * John Goulstone
 * Hambledon – The Men and the Myths (2001)


 * W G Grace
 * Cricket (1891)
 * Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (1899)


 * Peter Griffiths
 * Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)


 * Ramachandra Guha
 * Wickets in the East (1992)
 * Spin and Other Turns (1994)
 * An Indian Cricket Omnibus (ed. with TG Vaidyanathan) (1994)
 * The Picador Book of Cricket (ed.) (2001)
 * A Corner of a Foreign Field – An Indian History of a British sport (2002)
 * The States of Indian Cricket (2005)

H

 * Gideon Haigh
 * The Cricket War (1993). ISBN 9781472950635
 * Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999. (ISBN 1-876485-51-5)
 * The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket (2000)
 * Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket (2004)
 * Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History (2006)
 * The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket (2007)
 * Duncan Hamilton
 * Harold Larwood (2009)


 * Chris Harte
 * A History of Australian Cricket (1993)
 * The History of the Sheffield Shield (1987)


 * Fyzul Hassanali
 * Captaincy in Cricket (2002) ISBN 976-8180-49-8
 * Captain out, All Out (2004)


 * Arthur Haygarth
 * Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies, published in 15 volumes between 1862 and 1879


 * Bernard Hollowood
 * Cricket on the Brain (1970)


 * Gerald Howat
 * Learie Constantine (1975)
 * Village Cricket (1980),
 * Cricketer Militant: the life of Jack Parsons (1980)
 * Walter Hammond (1984)
 * Plum Warner (1987)
 * Len Hutton: The Biography (1988)
 * Cricket's Second Golden Age: The Hammond-Bradman Years (1989)
 * Cricket Medley (1993)
 * Cricket All My Life (autobiography) (2006)

J

 * C L R James
 * Beyond a Boundary (1963)


 * D R Jardine
 * In Quest of the Ashes (1933)

K

 * JM Kilburn
 * In Search of Cricket (1937)
 * The Scarborough Cricket Festival (1948)
 * History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949 (1950)
 * Yorkshire County Cricket (County Cricket Series) (1950)
 * Len Hutton: The story of a great cricketer (1951)
 * Cricket (Homes of Sport) (with Norman Yardley) (1952)
 * Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956 (1959)
 * A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket (1963)
 * A History of Yorkshire Cricket (1970)
 * Thanks to Cricket (1973)
 * Overthrows (1975)
 * Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn: Edited by Duncan Hamilton (2008)


 * A E Knight
 * The Complete Cricketer (1906)

L

 * John Lazenby
 * Test of Time, John Murray, 2005


 * Christopher Lee
 * From the Sea End – Official History of Sussex CCC (1989)


 * David Lemmon
 * The History of Surrey County Cricket Club (1989)


 * W J Lewis
 * The Language of Cricket (1938)


 * E V Lucas
 * The Hambledon Men (1907)

M

 * Timothy J McCann
 * Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004)


 * John Major
 * More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years (2007: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-00-718364-7)


 * Ashley Mallett
 * Trumper: the illustrated biography, Melbourne, Macmillan, 1985. (ISBN 0-333-40088-7)


 * John Marshall
 * A History of Sussex Cricket (1959)
 * The Duke Who Was Cricket (1961)


 * G D Martineau
 * Bat, Ball, Wicket and All (1954)
 * The Field is Full of Shades (1954)
 * They Made Cricket (1956)


 * Christopher Martin-Jenkins
 * The Wisden Book of County Cricket (with Frank Warwick) (1981)
 * Ball by Ball: The Story of Cricket Broadcasting (1990)


 * Ronald Mason
 * Batsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania (1955)
 * Jack Hobbs – A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman (1960)
 * Walter Hammond: A biography (1962)
 * Sing All A Green Willow (1967)
 * 'Plum' Warner's Last Season (1970)
 * Warwick Armstrong's Australians (1973)
 * Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33 (1982)


 * Eric Midwinter
 * WG Grace: His Life and Times (1981)
 * 150 Years: Surrey Cricket Club 1845-1995 (1995)


 * Keith Miller
 * Cricket Crossfire (1956)


 * Mary Russell Mitford
 * Our Village (1832) (this collection of essays contains one on a village cricket match )


 * Geoffrey Moorhouse
 * The Best Loved Game (1979)


 * Mahiyar Morawalla
 * Cricket Cavalcade: Studies of Great Batsmen (1976)
 * King of Kings: The Story of Sir Garfield Sobers (1981)


 * Patrick Morrah
 * Alfred Mynn and the Cricketers of his Time (1986)


 * Ashley Mote
 * The Glory Days of Cricket (1997)
 * John Nyren's "The Cricketers of My Time" (1998)


 * Johnnie Moyes
 * Australian Cricket: A History, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959.


 * Sujit Mukherjee
 * The Romance of Indian Cricket 1968
 * Playing for India 1972
 * Between Indian Wickets 1977
 * Matched Winners 1996
 * Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer 1997
 * An Indian Cricket Century: Selected Writings 2002


 * D.J. Mulvaney
 * Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8 (1967)

N

 * William North
 * Nottingham Old Club Match Scores (1832)


 * John Nyren
 * The Young Cricketer's Tutor and the Cricketers of My Time (with Charles Cowden Clarke)(1833)

P

 * E.W. Padwick
 * A Bibliography of Cricket, Library Association, 1984 (2nd edition)
 * Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)


 * J S Penny
 * Cricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 – 1800 (year tbc)


 * Roland Perry
 * The Don, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1995. (ISBN 0-7329-0827-2)


 * Playfair
 * Playfair Cricket Annual (annually from 1948)


 * Jack Pollard
 * Australian Cricket 5 volumes: The Formative Years, 1803–1893; The Turbulent Years, 1893–1917; The Bradman Years 1918–1948; The Packer Years, 1948–1995; Highest, Most and Best, 192 Years of Cricket Statistics. Sydney, The Book Company, 1995. (ISBN 1-86309-084-3)
 * Australian Cricket: The game and the players. Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. (ISBN 0-340-28796-9)
 * Six and Out: The legend of Australian and New Zealand Cricket, 4th ed., North Sydney, Jack Pollard, 1973 (ISBN 0-909950-32-6)


 * James Pycroft
 * The Cricket Field (1851)

R

 * Simon Rae
 * W.G. Grace: A Life (1998)


 * Vasant Raiji
 * Ranji: The Legend and the Man (1963)
 * L. P. Jai: Memories of a Great Batsman (edited) (1976)
 * The Romance of the Ranji Trophy (1984)
 * India's Hambledon Men (1986)
 * CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, 1937-1987 (with Anandji Dossa) (1987)
 * C. K. Nayudu: The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket (1989)
 * Duleep: A Centenary Tribute (2005)
 * From Presidency to Pentangular (with Mohandas Menon) (2006)


 * Netta Rheinberg
 * Fair Play – the story of women's cricket (1976) – (with Rachael Heyhoe-Flint)


 * R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
 * Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1940) (1943)
 * More Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1945) (1948)
 * 46 Not Out – an autobiography (1948)
 * Rain Stopped Play (1948)
 * The Brighter Side of Cricket (1950)
 * All in the Game (1952)
 * How To Become A Test Cricketer (1962)
 * Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)


 * Ray Robinson
 * Between Wickets (1946)
 * The Glad Season (1955)
 * The Wildest Tests (1972)
 * On Top Down Under (1975)


 * Peter Roebuck
 * Slices of Cricket Unwin, (1982) ISBN 0-04-796088-4, ISBN 978-0-04-796088-8
 * It Never Rains: A Cricketer's Lot, Unwin, (1984) ISBN 0-04-796096-5; ISBN 978-0-04-796096-3;
 * It Sort of Clicks, (with Ian Botham) (1986) ISBN 0-947072-32-2, ISBN 978-0-947072-32-2
 * Great Innings, Blitz (1990) ISBN 1-85605-121-8, ISBN 978-1-85605-121-7
 * Tangled Up in White: Peter Roebuck on Cricket, Hodder & Stoughton, (1992) ISBN 0-340-56618-3, ISBN 978-0-340-56618-3
 * From Sammy to Jimmy: History of Somerset County Cricket Club, Partridge Press (1991) ISBN 1-85225-085-2, ISBN 978-1-85225-085-0
 * Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh, (autobiography) Allen & Unwin (2004)  ISBN 1-74114-389-6
 * It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating Cricket's Colourful Characters, Allen & Unwin, (2005) ISBN 1-74114-542-2
 * In It To Win It: The Australian Cricket Supremacy Allen & Unwin, (2006) ISBN 1-74114-543-0


 * Alan Ross
 * Australia 55 (1955)
 * Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1956)
 * The Cricketer's Companion (editor) (1960)
 * Through the Caribbean (1960)
 * Australia 63 (1963)
 * Ranji – Prince of Cricketers (1983)


 * Rowland Ryder
 * Cricket Calling (1995)

S

 * Keith A. P. Sandiford
 * 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992 (1992; edited with Ronald Hughes and Carlisle Burton)
 * Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966 (1998)
 * Gary Sobers (1998)
 * The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society (1998; edited with Brian Stoddart)


 * Hugh de Sélincourt
 * The Cricket Match (a novel) (1924)


 * Gerard Siggins
 * Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005 (2005)
 * 100 Greats of Irish Cricket (with James Fitzgerald, 2006)
 * Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland's World Cup adventure (with Trent Johnston, 2007)


 * HF & AP Squire
 * Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket (1951)


 * Richard Streeton
 * PGH Fender: A Biography (1981)


 * JF Sutton
 * Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853, Simpkin & Marshall, 1853


 * E W Swanton
 * Elusive Victory (1951)
 * Cricket and the Clock (1952)
 * Best Cricket Stories (1953)
 * West Indian Adventure 1953-1954 (1954)
 * West Indies Revisited – MCC tour 1959-1960 (1960)
 * Cricket from All Angles (1968)
 * Sort of a Cricket Person (1972)
 * Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-1975 (1975)
 * Follow On (1977)
 * Barclays World of Cricket (General Editor) (1980 – 2nd ed.)
 * As I Said at the Time – a Lifetime of Cricket (1983)
 * Gubby Allen – Man of Cricket (1985)
 * Kent Cricket – a Photographic History 1744-1984 (with C H Taylor) (1985)
 * The Essential E W Swanton – the 1980s Observed (1990)
 * Last Over – A Life in Cricket (1996)

T

 * Percy Francis Thomas
 * Old English Cricket (1929)


 * A. A. Thomson
 * Cricket My Pleasure (1953)
 * Cricket My Happiness (1954)
 * Pavilioned in Splendour (1956)
 * The Great Cricketer (a biography of Dr W G Grace) (1957 and 1968)
 * Odd Men In (1958)
 * Hirst and Rhodes (1959, 1986)
 * Cricket Bouquet (1961)
 * Cricket: The Golden Ages (1961)
 * Hutton and Washbrook (1963)
 * Cricket: The Great Captains (1965)
 * Cricket: The Wars of the Roses (1967)
 * Cricketers of My Times (1967)


 * Geoff Tibballs
 * No-balls and Googlies (2007)

U

 * David Underdown
 * Start of Play (2000)

W

 * H T Waghorn
 * Cricket Scores 1730–1773 (1899)
 * The Dawn of Cricket (1906)


 * P F Warner
 * How we recovered the Ashes (1904)
 * Cricket Between Two Wars (1942)
 * Lord's 1787-1945 (1947)
 * Long Innings (1951)
 * Sir Pelham Warner's Book of Cricket (1945)


 * Steve Waugh
 * Out of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005. (ISBN 0-670-04198-X)


 * J R Webber
 * The Chronicle of W.G. (1998)


 * Roy Webber
 * The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
 * The Australians in England: A record of the 21 Australian cricket tours of England, 1878 to 1953 (1953)
 * The County Cricket Championship: A history of the competition from 1873 to the present day (1957)
 * Phoenix History of Cricket (1960)
 * The Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1963 (concise edition)


 * Simon Wilde
 * Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990)
 * Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994)
 * Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers (1998)
 * Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket (2001)
 * Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007)


 * Martin Wilson
 * An Index to Waghorn (Bodyline Books, 2005)


 * John Wisden
 * Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (annually from 1864)
 * Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia
 * The Wisden Cricketer – a monthly magazine
 * Wisden Cricket Monthly – merged with The Cricketer to form The Wisden Cricketer
 * Wisden Asia Cricket – (defunct)


 * John Woodcock
 * The Times – One Hundred Greatest Cricketers (1998)


 * Graeme Wright
 * Test Decade 1972-1982 (1982)
 * A Wisden Collection (2004)
 * Wisden at Lord's – An Illustrated Anthology (2005)


 * Peter Wynne-Thomas
 * Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records (1983)
 * Give Me Arthur (1985)
 * From the Weald to the World (1997)

Y

 * Graham Yallop
 * Lambs to the Slaughter (1979)


 * Samuel Youd (writing as William Godfrey)
 * Malleson at Melbourne (novel) (1956)
 * The Friendly Game (fiction) (1957)