Cricket: An illustrated history

by David Allen

159 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 1990

Reviews

[Jonathan Bates · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite being a committed fan of cricket, this book had a great number of illustrations and photographs I’d never seen. The accompanying text was a sort of chronological, thematic history of the game which was also interesting and easy to read.
Perhaps just my view but I do feel the text and the images could have been more closely linked. For example, telling the history through the images, by discussing/exploring the images in the main text.
That said, that clearly wasn’t the intention and this is a good book for cricket nerds like me!

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt the writing assumed you already knew about the history of cricket.