The first narrative history of Test cricket
28th April 2025
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The first narrative history of Test cricket
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Test cricket is on the cusp of its 150th anniversary. For the first time, Test Cricket: A History tells the full, gripping story of the players and stories that have shaped the game's evolution since 1877.
Award-winning author Tim Wigmore brings to life both Test cricket on the pitch and the game's social significance around the world. This captivating tour is illuminated by dozens of exclusive interviews with the game's greatest players, including Sachin Tendulkar, Pat Cummins, Michael Holding, Muthiah Muralidaran, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Chappell, Dale Steyn and Rahul Dravid.From Bodyline to Bazball, the golden age to the rise of West Indies, and Shane Warne to Ian Botham, readers will come to appreciate Test cricket's remarkable history like never before.Critic Reviews
This encyclopedic history, packed with famous incident and arresting analysis, should be in everyone's cricket library -- Rahul Bhattacharya
This exceptional blend of traditional history and journalistic research gives us a cricket history like no other -- Scyld Berry, Daily Telegraph and author of Cricket: The Game of Life
Wonderfully wide-focused, unfailingly readable and laced with passages of insightful analysis, Tim Wigmore's history of test cricket is a true tour de force -- David Kynaston
A riveting, authoritative, and passionate chronicle of cricket's greatest game: the Test -- Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
Much more than simply a history of Test cricket, this is a colourful, modern take on the sport's most treasured format. I've commentated on over 400 Tests and learned so much from this wonderful book. Wigmore lays bare the challenges Test cricket faces and the fight required to preserve it -- Jonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special
A vital and fresh history of the game's legacy format; most significantly, given it remains cricket's most exclusive format, it is an inclusive history. Wigmore meticulously charts the global forces that have shaped Test cricket -- Osman Samiuddin, author of The Unquiet Ones: A History of Pakistan Cricket
Tim Wigmore has established himself as one of cricket's most incisive analysts and writers, blending his engaging, innovative use of modern data with a deep knowledge of the game's history. These qualities come together in this compelling book -- Andy Zaltzman, Test Match Special
Hugely informative and enjoyable - a fantastic achievement. A must-read for all cricket lovers -- Peter Frankopan
About the Author
Tim Wigmore is the author of Crickonomics and Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Daily Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year in 2020. He is a sports writer for the Daily Telegraph, and has also written for The Economist, The New York Times, ESPNCricinfo and The New Statesman.
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