List of cricketers' biographies and autobiographies
This is a list of biographies and autobiographies of cricketers.
List of biographies and autobiographies
[edit]| First Published | Book | Based on | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Spinning Round The World | Jim Laker | Jim Laker |
| 1960 | Over To Me | Jim Laker | Jim Laker |
| 1961 | Thrown Out | Ian Meckiff | Ian Meckiff |
| 1967 | Cricket Delightful | Mushtaq Ali | Mushtaq Ali |
| 1968 | Close on Cricket the story | Brian Close | Brian Close |
| 1976 | Cricket Rebel | John Snow | John Snow |
| 1976 | Ball of Fire: An Autobiography | Fred Trueman | Fred Trueman |
| 1977 | One More Over | Erapalli Prasanna | Erapalli Prasanna |
| 1977 | Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 1982 | Sir Aubrey | C. Aubrey Smith | David Rayvern Allen |
| 1983 | Imran | Imran Khan | Imran Khan with Patrick Murphy |
| 1984 | Spartan Cricketer | Douglas Jardine | Christopher Douglas |
| 1984 | Wally Hammond | Wally Hammond | Gerald Howat |
| 1985 | Playing Days | Tony Lewis | Tony Lewis |
| 1985 | A Game Enjoyed | Peter May | Peter May and Michael Melford |
| 1987 | Archie Jackson: The Keats of Cricket | Archie Jackson | David Frith |
| 1987 | Boycott: The Autobiography | Geoffrey Boycott | Geoffrey Boycott |
| 1991 | Coming of Age | Eddie Hemmings | Eddie Hemmings with Graham Otway |
| 1995 | Beating the Field | Brian Lara | Brian Lara |
| 1996 | Uncorked! Diary of a Cricket Year | Dominic Cork | Dominic Cork |
| 1997 | Under The Southern Cross | David Boon | David Boon |
| 1997 | W. G. Grace: An Intimate Biography | W. G. Grace | Robert Low |
| 1997 | Dickie Bird: My Autobiography | Dickie Bird | Dickie Bird |
| 1998 | Wasim | Wasim Akram | Wasim Akram with Patrick Murphy |
| 1998 | You Guys Are History! | Devon Malcolm | Devon Malcolm with Patrick Murphy |
| 1998 | Anything But an Autobiography | Richie Benaud | Richie Benaud |
| 1999 | Mark Taylor: Time to Declare | Mark Taylor | Mark Taylor |
| 1999 | Courtney: Heart of the Lion | Courtney Walsh | Courtney Walsh |
| 1999 | White Lightning | Allan Donald | Allan Donald with Patrick Murphy |
| 1999 | Aravinda: My Autobiography | Aravinda de Silva | Aravinda de Silva with Shahriar Khan |
| 1999 | What Now? | Phil Tufnell | Phil Tufnell |
| 2000 | Sir Vivian: The Definitive Autobiography | Vivian Richards | Vivian Richards with Bob Harris |
| 2000 | Hands and Heals | Ian Healy | Ian Healy |
| 2000 | David Lloyd: The Autobiography - Anything but Murder | David Lloyd | David Lloyd with Alan Lee |
| 2000 | Botham: My Autobiography | Ian Botham | Ian Botham with Peter Hayter |
| 2001 | Dazzler: The Autobiography | Darren Gough | Darren Gough with David Norrie |
| 2002 | From Dusk to Dawn | Fazal Mahmood | Fazal Mahmood |
| 2002 | Garry Sobers: My Autobiography | Gary Sobers | Gary Sobers |
| 2002 | Mark Waugh: The Biography | Mark Waugh | James Knight |
| 2002 | Shane Warne: My Autobiography | Shane Warne | Shane Warne |
| 2003 | Menace: The Autobiography | Dennis Lillee | Dennis Lillee |
| 2003 | Opening Up | Mike Atherton | Mike Atherton |
| 2004 | Cutting Edge: My Autobiography | Javed Miandad | Javed Miandad |
| 2004 | Worth The Wait | Darren Lehmann | Darren Lehmann |
| 2004 | Basil D’Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy The Untold Story | Basil D’Oliveira | Peter Oborne |
| 2004 | Third Man to Fatty's Leg | Steve James | Steve James |
| 2004 | Playing with Fire: The Autobiography | Nasser Hussain | Nasser Hussain |
| 2004 | Straight from the Heart | Kapil Dev | Kapil Dev |
| 2004 | Playing For Keeps | Alec Stewart | Alec Stewart with Patrick Murphy |
| 2004 | Gazza: The Gary Kirsten Autobiography | Gary Kirsten | Gary Kirsten with Neil Manthorp |
| 2005 | Calling The Shots | Michael Vaughan | Michael Vaughan |
| 2006 | Out of My Comfort Zone | Steve Waugh | Steve Waugh |
| 2006 | The Nice Guy Who Finished First | Rahul Dravid | D. Prabhudesai |
| 2006 | Jim Laker: Nineteen for Ninety | Jim Laker | Brian Scovell |
| 2006 | Freddie Flintoff, My World | Andrew Flintoff | Andrew Flintoff |
| 2006 | Brim Full of Passion | Wasim Khan | Wasim Khan with Alan Wilkins |
| 2006 | Bearders - My Life in Cricket | Bill Frindall | Bill Frindall |
| 2006 | Twenty20 Vision | Mushtaq Ahmed | Mushtaq Ahmed |
| 2006 | Rising From The Ashes | Graham Thorpe | Graham Thorpe |
| 2007 | My Story - The Other Side of the Coin | Andy Ganteaume | Andy Ganteaume |
| 2007 | Cricket's Philosopher King | CLR James | Dave Renton |
| 2007 | Head On | Ian Botham | Ian Botham |
| 2007 | Monty's Turn | Monty Panesar | Monty Panesar |
| 2007 | Bill Edrich Biography | Bill Edrich | Alan Hill |
| 2007 | Portrait of a Flawed Genius | Shane Warne | Simon Wilde |
| 2007 | My Turn to Spin | Shaun Udal | Shaun Udal with Pat Symes |
| 2007 | The Flame Still Burns | Tom Cartwright | Stephen Chalke |
| 2007 | Pioneer Professional | George Lohmann | Keith Booth |
| 2007 | Cricket's Troubled Genius | Brian Lara | Brian Scovell |
| 2007 | Wasted? | Paul Smith | Paul Smith |
| 2007 | Behind the Shades: The Autobiography | Duncan Fletcher | Duncan Fletcher |
| 2008 | There's Only 2 Tony Cotteys | Tony Cottey | Tony Cottey with Dave Brayley |
| 2008 | Aggressive Master of Spin | Tony Lock | Alan Hill |
| 2008 | Starting Out: My Story So Far | Alastair Cook | Alastair Cook |
| 2008 | Bickers | Martin Bicknell | Martin Bicknell |
| 2008 | Coming Back to Me | Marcus Trescothick | Marcus Trescothick |
| 2008 | Out of the Park | Craig McMillan | Craig McMillan |
| 2008 | The Definitive Biography | Sachin Tendulkar | Vaibhav Purandare |
| 2008 | Line and Strength | Glenn McGrath | Glenn McGrath |
| 2008 | True Colours | Adam Gilchrist | Adam Gilchrist |
| 2009 | Imran Khan | Imran Khan | Christopher Sandford |
| 2009 | Strictly Me - My Life Under the Spotlight | Mark Ramprakash | Mark Ramprakash |
| 2009 | The Captain's Tales: Battle for the Ashes | David Fulton | David Fulton |
| 2009 | Portrait of a Rebel | Kevin Pietersen | Marcus Stead |
| 2009 | Harold Larwood | Harold Larwood | Duncan Hamilton |
| 2009 | Hoggy - Welcome to My World | Matthew Hoggard | Matthew Hoggard |
| 2009 | Cricket in the Park | Lord Sheffield | Roger Packham |
| 2009 | And God Created Cricket | Simon Hughes | Simon Hughes |
| 2009 | No Bull: From the Bush to the Baggy Green | Andy Bichel | Gerry Collins |
| 2009 | Graeme Smith: A Captain's Diary | Graeme Smith | Graeme Smith with Neil Manthorp |
| 2009 | Driving Ambition - My Autobiography | Andrew Strauss | Andrew Strauss |
| 2010 | Standing My Ground | Matthew Hayden | Matthew Hayden |
| 2010 | Thommo Speaks Out | Jeff Thomson | Ashley Mallett |
| 2010 | Blood, Sweat and Treason | Henry Olonga | Henry Olonga |
| 2010 | Keeping My Head: A Life in Cricket | Justin Langer | Justin Langer |
| 2010 | No Holding Back: The Autobiography | Michael Holding | Michael Holding |
| 2010 | Over But Not Out | Richie Benaud | Richie Benaud |
| 2010 | No Boundaries | Ronnie Irani | Ronnie Irani |
| 2010 | Start The Car: The World According to Bumble | David Lloyd | David Lloyd |
| 2010 | Taking the Mickey: The Inside Story | Mickey Arthur | Mickey Arthur with Neil Manthorp |
| 2011 | Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest Cricketer | Jack Hobbs | Leo McKinstry |
| 2011 | The Last Flannelled Fool | Michael Simkins | Michael Simkins |
| 2011 | Peter May Biography | Peter May | Alan Hill |
| 2011 | Ian Botham - The Power and The Glory | Ian Botham | Simon Wilde |
| 2011 | Fred Trueman - The Authorised Biography | Fred Trueman | Chris Waters |
| 2011 | The Breaks are Off - My Autobiography | Graeme Swann | Graeme Swann |
| 2011 | A Reappraisal of English Cricket's Most Controversial Captain | Tony Greig | David Tossell |
| 2011 | Roo's Book | Bruce Yardley | Bruce Yardley |
| 2011 | Don's Century | Don Bradman | Indra Vikram Singh |
| 2011 | Controversially Yours | Shoaib Akhtar | Shoaib Akhtar |
| 2011 | To The Point | Herschelle Gibbs | Herschelle Gibbs with Steve Smith |
| 2011 | The Following Game | Jonathan Smith | Jonathan Smith |
| 2011 | Brett Lee: My Life | Brett Lee | Brett Lee, James Knight |
| 2011 | Imran Versus Imran: The Untold Story | Imran Khan | Frank Huzur |
| 2012 | Return To The Crease | John Pennington | John Pennington |
| 2012 | Luck: What it Means and Why it Matters | Ed Smith | Ed Smith |
| 2012 | Daffy My Life in Cricket | Phil DeFreitas | Phil DeFreitas |
| 2012 | The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back | Yuvraj Singh | Yuvraj Singh |
| 2012 | Jimmy: My Story | James Anderson | James Anderson with Richard Gibson |
| 2012 | Watto | Shane Watson | Shane Watson with Jimmy Thomson |
| 2012 | Tuffer's Cricket Tales | Phil Tufnell | Phil Tufnell |
| 2012 | Keeping Quiet | Paul Nixon | Paul Nixon |
| 2012 | Jackers: A Life in Cricket | Robin Jackman | Robin Jackman with Colin Bryden |
| 2012 | The Valiant Cricketer | Trevor Bailey | Alan Hill |
| 2012 | Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell | Greg Chappell | Greg Chappell with Malcolm Knox |
| 2012 | My World in Cricket | Stuart Broad | Stuart Broad |
| 2013 | Underneath the Southern Cross | Michael Hussey | Michael Hussey |
| 2013 | Ponting: At the Close of Play | Ricky Ponting | Ricky Ponting |
| 2013 | The Gloves are Off: My Life in Cricket | Matt Prior | Matt Prior |
| 2013 | The Test of Will | Glenn McGrath | Glenn McGrath |
| 2013 | Bouch: Through My Eyes | Mark Boucher | Mark Boucher with Neil Manthorp |
| 2013 | Tony Greig: Love, War and Cricket - A Family Memoir | Tony Greig | Joyce Greig and Mark Greig |
| 2014 | Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar | Sachin Tendulkar with Boria Majumdar |
| 2014 | KP: The Autobiography | Kevin Pietersen | Kevin Pietersen with David Walsh |
| 2014 | Rhino | Ryan Harris | Ryan Harris with Stephen Gray and Jason Phelan |
| 2014 | Cricket As I See It | Allan Border | Allan Border |
| 2015 | The Test: My Life, and the Inside Story of the Greatest Ashes Series | Simon Jones | Simon Jones |
| 2015 | Time to Talk | Curtly Ambrose | Curtly Ambrose with Richard Sydenham |
| 2015 | Second Innings: My Sporting Life | Andrew Flintoff | Andrew Flintoff |
| 2015 | Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography | Phillip Hughes | Malcolm Knox with Peter Lalor |
| 2015 | The Art of Captaincy (30th Anniversary Edition) | Mike Brearley | Mike Brearley |
| 2015 | Don Bradman - The Definitive Biography | Don Bradman | Roland Perry |
| 2016 | Mashrafe | Mashrafe Mortaza | Debabrata Mukherjee |
| 2016 | Mind the Windows: My Story | Tino Best | Tino Best with Jack Wilson |
| 2016 | Absolutely Foxed | Graeme Fowler | Graeme Fowler |
| 2016 | Six Machine: I Don't Like Cricket... I Love It | Chris Gayle | Chris Gayle |
| 2016 | AB de Villiers - The Autobiography | AB de Villiers | AB de Villiers |
| 2016 | Unguarded: My Autobiography | Jonathan Trott | Jonathan Trott |
| 2016 | Michael Clarke: My Story | Michael Clarke | Michael Clarke |
| 2016 | Resilient | Mitchell Johnson | Mitchell Johnson |
| 2016 | Declared | Brendon McCullum | Brendon McCullum with Greg McGee |
| 2016 | The Wrong 'Un: The Brad Hogg Story | Brad Hogg | Brad Hogg with Greg Growden |
| 2016 | Driven: The Virat Kohli Story | Virat Kohli | Vijay Lokapally |
| 2016 | Coach | Darren Lehmann | Darren Lehmann with Brian Murgatroyd |
| 2016 | A Beautiful Game | Mark Nicholas | Mark Nicholas |
| 2017 | My Family's Keeper | Brad Haddin | Brad Haddin |
| 2017 | The Sound of Summer | Jim Maxwell | Jim Maxwell |
| 2017 | The Journey | Steve Smith | Steve Smith |
| 2017 | A Clear Blue Sky | Jonny Bairstow | Jonny Bairstow with Duncan Hamilton |
| 2018 | Imperfect | Sanjay Manjrekar | Sanjay Manjrekar |
| 2018 | A Century Is Not Enough | Sourav Ganguly | Sourav Ganguly with Gautam Bhattacharya |
| 2018 | No Spin: My Autobiography | Shane Warne | Shane Warne |
| 2018 | Moeen | Moeen Ali | Moeen Ali with Mihir Bose |
| 2018 | 281 and Beyond | VVS Laxman | VVS Laxman with R Kaushik |
| 2019 | The Test of My Life from cricket to cancer and back. | Yuvraj Singh | Yuvraj Singh |
| 2019 | Mr Junior 360° | Rahid Hasan | Rahid Hasan with Wajahat S. Khan |