Cricket players -- Great Britain -- Biography

William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915) looms as large in the history of modern sport as Bach in the history of music or Michelangelo in the history of art. Physically immense, with a luxuriant black mane of a beard, Grace's performances on the cricket field towered above his peers. When 'W.G.' became ...

England cricket captain Andrew Strauss gives a candid account of the highs and lows of his remarkable career.

As Chris Waters reveals in this biography, behind cricketing legend Fred Trueman's charismatic, exuberant mask lay a far less self-assured man and whose version of his bucolic upbringing bore no relation to the gritty and impoverished South Yorkshire mining community where he actually grew up.

The match-winning superstar of the England cricket team finally shares his remarkable personal story in this eagerly-awaited autobiography. Moeen traces his journey from backyard cricket to the county game and his first-class debut as a teenager, through to his international debut at the relative...

'If you go on like this, you'll do nothing but play cricket all your life'. These were the exasperated words of Mike Brearley's mother, as he once again tracked mud into the house after a long day playing outdoors. They were also an unknowing prediction, for Brearley's is a life that has always b...