Cricket books

Got a few books for Christmas and one of them was Phillip huges auto and must say one of my best reads for a while,gives you a real insight to him as a person,not just a cricketer and not hard to see why he was loved so much around the world as well is here in Australia
Would recommend to anyone and especially to the young people out there
 
Enjoyed reading all these.
Adam Gilchrist True Colours
Matthew Hayden Standing my Ground
Glenn McGrath Line and strength
Ricky Ponting captain diaries 2009
Botham The Autobiography
Freddie The biography of Andrew Flintoff

Currently reading Nasser Hussains Playing with fire. Enjoying this too.

Not cricket but Andrew Johns The Two Of Me is worth reading too.
 
Mike Atherton's autobiography, "Opening Up", is fantastic. I love Athers as a commentator and a journalist - I appreciate his dry wit. You can get copies of "Opening Up" on eBay. It was published in 2003 from memory.

I see that Chris Gayle is publishing his autobiography - titled "Six Machine" - in June. (Insert "he's WRITTEN one more than he's READ" gag here! )
 
I'm a big Atherton fan. Good guy and I also love listening to his commentary. I'll definitely get that next I reckon.
 
Finished reading "Decima Norman: The First Golden Girl" - the biography on the first athlete to win five gold medals at any International Track & Field event (1938 British Empire Games) - brilliantly researched story on a pioneer of Australian Athletics and forerunner to Cuthbert, Strickland, Flintoff, Boyle, Freeman etc.

Also just read Richard Cashman's great little book on the legendary "YABBA" - the great SCG sports barracker of the 1920's & 30's and my current read is Max Bonnell's "Lucky", the story of Australia's 1926 Ashes Captain; Herbie Collins which I can recommend so far
 
I grabbed Captains on a seesaw at a second hand bookshop for $6 on Wednesday great read so far
 
There are books from Jonathan Trott, A.B de Villiers, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Mark Nicholas, Dennis Lillee, Brad Hogg and Brad Haddin being released over the next few months.
 
Just got my copy of the new Gideon Haigh book on the immortal Victor Trumper and the famous Beldham photograph

I'll get my way through it easily because like most of his books they are beautifully written and a contagious read...
 
Six chapters in, it seems to me that George Bradley Hogg has written the cricket book of the summer. It is a great mix of humour, hard lessons and reflection. All this, and I'm only up to the second match of his Western Australian career.

Never before have I read the words "I was leaking bum gravy" appear in ANY autobiography!!
 
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