Alec Stewart's Cricket Companion

When Alec Stewart blistered a century in his 100th Test, the sheer length of the standing ovation from a packed Old Trafford crowd confirmed that he had already become a national institution. He went on to represent England more times than Botham, Boycott, Gooch, Gower and every other great that the game has ever produced. Having recently decided to bring his playing days to an end, T…

Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times with Test Match Special on Tour (PAPERBACK)

For 25 years Peter Baxter toured the world for the BBC, producing and commentating on Test Match Special from India and Pakistan to New Zealand and the West Indies.Drawing extensively on his tour diaries, and with a cast including Henry Blofeld, Jonathan Agnew and the late Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Baxter vividly takes us behind the scenes of TMS on tour – from the threat of arrest in…

The Best Views From the Boundary: Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews (PAPERBACK)

The greatest lunchtime interviews from the much-loved cricketing institution that is BBC Radio’s Test Match SpecialViews from the Boundary – the Saturday lunchtime interview – has always been a highlight of the BBC’s Test Match Special, a programme with a special place in the heart of every English cricket fan.The well-known Interviewees are from all walks of life and unite…

The Best Views from the Boundary:Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews (HARDBACK)

Views from the Boundary – the Saturday lunchtime interview – has always been a highlight of the BBC’s Test Match Special, a programme with a special place in the heart of every English cricket fan. The well-known Interviewees are from all walks of life and united only by one thing – a love of the game. Over a glass of champagne and in the convivial atmosphere of the TMS co…

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time

Following in the success of Alan Henry's Top 100 Formula One Drivers, this is a rigorous assessment of cricketing legends from one of the game's foremost commentators. With every cricket season that passes the roll-call of great players gets longer. Batsmen, bowlers, fielders, wicket-keepers, captains, characters. Every year more international cricket is played by more countries, making the …

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time (PAPERBACK)

  Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the voice of BBC Radio 4’s Test Match Special and chief cricket correspondent for The Times and the Daily Telegraph, presents a century of the very best players the game has ever produced. Updated following England’s Ashes victory in 2009, this paperback edition sees CMJ attempt at the challenge he himself calls ‘impossible but irresistible…

Third Man in Havana: Finding the Heart of Cricket in the World's Most Unlikely Places (HARDBACK)

When Tom Rodwell embarked on a cricketing tour of India, he had only ever thought of the game as great fun. But the simple joy of the local street kids when his team donated their kit to them made him realise that it could be more than that. By turns touching and amusing, and imbued with a deep love of the game, Third Man in Havana is the story of the charity cricket programmes ‘Major…