My Eldest Son

Paula Fitzgerald

Corinthian

When Alec Stewart scored 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, "Alec Stewart's Cricket Companion" now provides him with the opportunity to take a wider look at the game as a whole.Full of engaging anecdotes from life in a sport he clearly loves, the book also explores the state of world cricket today, before assessing how the sport should evolve and embrace the future. Stewart is characteristically honest and uncompromising about a number of players past and present, and it's not just cricket that makes it into the firing line. We learn his assessment of modern-day sport as a whole, not least football and his beloved Chelsea FC. This book isn't just for followers of cricket, it's for anyone wanting to absorb the professional opinion of one of the greatest sportsmen England has ever known.

My Cricket Companion

Sports & Outdoors

Alec Stewart

Other Team Sports

Life in the Beautiful Game

<p>Bob Wilson's "Life in The Beautiful Game" sees the Arsenal legend and veteran BBC presenter takes a long and personal look back at a sport that has kept him busy in one form or another for over half a century. During his career, he has played alongside or against, coached, interviewed, become friends with, or at least met pretty much every great name the game of football has ever produced. Needless to say, he has picked up some pretty good stories along the way.From Busby to Beckham, Greaves to Gazza, Cruyff to Charlton, no one escapes Wilson's entertaining dissection of the game. You can discover why the great Bill Shankly once locked him in a room at the Liverpool training ground and wouldn't let him out, why the legendary Brian Clough once insisted on getting him drunk before an interview, and what really happened in that infamous Arsenal and Man Utd tunnel punch-up between Vieira and Keane. It's clearly a sport he loves, and there is no question that reading his book will leave you remembering why football acquired the moniker - "The Beautiful Game".</p>

Bob Wilson

Soccer

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

With every cricket season that passes the roll-call of great players gets longer. Batsmen, bowlers, fielders, wicket-keepers, captains, and characters. Every year more international cricket is played by more countries, making the task of ranking the best of them harder than it has ever been. And how do you compare a dazzling Twenty20 specialist of the modern era with a champion of the age before Test cricket officially started in 1877? Some years after the last of his highly regarded books was published, Christopher Martin-Jenkins has accepted the challenge of selecting the 100 best players of all time, one that he has called 'impossible but irresistible'. Placing them in order of precedence, he has analysed each of them, assessing their characters, the cricketing elements that made them so outstanding and the special qualities that enabled them to be pre-eminent in their time. Whether Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Kevin Pietersen, Brett Lee, Muttiah Muralitharan and Jacques Kallis, heroes of the contemporary game, will make a list that includes immortal cricketers such as W.G. Grace, Don Bradman and Gary Sobers, will be as fascinating as where they may be rated in the pantheon. Having written and commentated on international cricket for 40 years, Martin-Jenkins is almost uniquely qualified to act as judge and jury.

Martin-Jenkins, C

<p>2010 is Ryder Cup year. This golf match, contested biennially by Europe and the USA, will take place at Celtic Manor, Wales, this October - and approximately one billion people will tune in. After a trio of resounding victories for Europe in recent times, the USA fought back hard in 2008 to seize the cup and re-establish their playing dominance. This autumn, the Europeans will be pushing their home-turf advantage, looking to stop the American dream of a second straight win. "The Ryder Cup: A History of Golf's Greatest Match" is an authoritative up-to-date chronicle of this fascinating event. It charts the spirited early years in the 1920s when only the tiny British Isles took on the mighty USA - in what was regularly a one-sided New World affair - through to the gladiatorial modern-day epics and the inclusion of Europe, bringing with it the charismatic captaincy of Tony Jacklin, the cavalier brilliance of Seve Ballesteros, and, against all odds, triumph for Europe on American soil. Bruce Critchley has been commentating on the matches, first for the BBC and now for Sky, for the last 25 years. He presents here an unparalleled insight into the Cup, drawing on personal reflections and interviews with many key individuals.</p>

The Ryder Cup: A History

Critchley

This is a collection of the best lunchtime interviews from BBC radio's hugely popular 'Test Match Special'. Interviewees include Mick Jagger, Lily Allen, John Cleese, John Major, Stephen Fry, Gary Lineker, and many more die-hard cricket enthusiasts.

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

Peter Baxter

Ronaldo: The Obsession for Perfection

When Cristiano Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid for a world record-shattering £80 million in 2009, it cemented his position as one of the best players of his era.This is the story of the two-time Ballon d'Or winner, the first Premier League player to be named FIFA World Player of the Year, and winnter of the 2010–2011 Golden Shoe.Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who crafted his reputation at ITV in Britain and as chief editor of Euronews TV in France. He settled in Spain five years ago where he is a correspondent for SKY Italia.

Luca Caioli

Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time

Robin Oakley presents his top 100 British racehorses of all time. This book is the product of a lifetime's passion following the sport. Oakley takes on the daunting task of assessing the truly great horses to have run in Britain and Ireland in both National Hunt and on the Flat.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Oakley, Robin

Pets & Animal Care

Can Anyone Hear Me?: Testing Times with Test Match Special on Tour

For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world. This funny and revealing book takes us behind the scenes as Baxter and his much-loved TMS colleagues do battle with local conditions and sometimes bizarre red tape to bring back home the latest news of England's progress (or otherwise) on the field. It should have been straightforward, but somehow it rarely was...

Can Anyone Hear Me?

Humor & Entertainment

Baxter, Peter

Radio

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My Eldest Son

My Cricket Companion

Life in the Beautiful Game

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time

The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time

The Ryder Cup: A History

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

Ronaldo: The Obsession for Perfection

Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time

Can Anyone Hear Me?