A hat trick
Widely acknowledged to be the finest book about cricket ever written. Beyond a Boundary - CLR JamesTrinidadian intellectual James fuses cricket, culture, history and a decolonising world into a sports book that remembers what few do: that there is an existence beyond the boundary.Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew - Shehan KarunatilakaA shimmering debut, this novel takes the reader on a quixotic journey deep into the heart of cricket's myth-making machine - the world of barroom statisticians, half-remembered factoids and fading seasons. Funny, depressing, beautiful and incredibly familiar to anyone who has ever carried a torch for a long-forgotten player.Letting Rip - Simon WildeWilde uses fairly restrained language and spreads his gaze equitably between eras and countries, but nothing can hide the fact that this glorious book is a passionate love letter to fast bowling written by someone deeply smitten with the most visceral of all cricket's thrills. If you miss the gasp of the crowd as a batsman flinches in fear, this book will bring it all back in glorious, bloody Technicolor. ..
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