A hat trick

02 June 2015 - 02:00

By Tom Eaton

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...

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