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. ()
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)A facsimile edition was published in 1997, incorporating additional material by David Rayvern Allen.
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) (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,
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 The 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) ()
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. () 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)
W. G. Grace Ghost-written by W. Methven Brownlee. Also available at Cricket. Ghost-written by Arthur Porritt. Ghost-written by William Yardley. Ghost-written by E. H. D. Sewell.
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)
The States of Indian Cricket (2005)
H Gideon Haigh The Cricket War (1993). Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999. () 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)