Peter Oborne

Not always cricket

Nothing can beat the early days of English cricket for exuberance and patriotism. But the brawling and fake nationalism of today’s test team is dispiriting

  • England: The Biography The Story of English Cricket, 1877–2018

    Simon Wilde

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 614

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