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Cricket and Literature
Thu, March 02 2017
Excerpt from Imtiaz Ahmad’s unpublished autobiography “For Cricket and Country”
Former Pakistan captain Imtiaz Ahmed's autobiography will be published by August 2017.
Thu, December 29 2016
A Detectives XI : A team composed of fictional private eyes
There are several other shrouds of undecipherable facts and questions that dominate the game’s history. Cricket and its story could be the fertile grounds for many a hardboiled detective to pit his wits and try his hand at solving age old puzzlers.
Tue, December 27 2016
The Skeleton in the Clock: A classic tale of impossible crime with a cricketing twist
John Dickson Carr was the master of the genre of detective fiction known as the locked room mystery. Complex tales of crime and detection of seemingly impossible murders and misdemeanours.
Sat, December 24 2016
Katherine Mansfield: The writer from New Zealand who had quite a ball with cricket (that swung both ways)
Katherine Mansfield was one of the most accomplished short-story writers to hail from New Zealand.
Mon, December 05 2016
The Z Murders: A Golden Age detective thriller with some sterling allusions to cricket
The Z Murders, published just before England embarked upon the infamous Bodyline odyssey, is perhaps not in the same league as a detective novel. The plot is not as tight. It treads on the boundaries of melodrama from time to time.
Tue, October 18 2016
Driven: The Virat Kohli Story — Review
CricketCountry reviews Virat Kohli's biography by Vijay Lokapally.
Fri, October 14 2016
Bob Dylan and the Geoff Boycott connection
With Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature, we strummed the strings that bind cricket with music to find a suitable connection between the man and the noble game.
Mon, September 19 2016
Roald Dahl XI
Roald Dahl, born September 13, 1916, remains one of the most popular children’s authors of all time (although he also wrote books for adults)
Thu, June 09 2016
Thirteen Guests: A chilling country-house mystery of the Golden Age with cricket playing an important role
Thirteen Guests, a chilling country-house murder mystery that has a crucial thread of cricket running through its complex and tantalising structure.
Wed, April 27 2016
Joseph Conrad’s funeral procession and the Canterbury Cricket Festival
Joseph Conrad was not particularly fond of cricket, but the last journey of this great English novelist had to pass through cricketing festivities.