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Bowl the Maidens Over: Our First Women Cricketers Louise Zedda-Sampson Melbourne, Victoria: Lzs Press 2021 (review in English by Rafaelle Nicholson, published 211208)
Cricket, Capitalism and Class: From the Village Green to the Cricket Industry Chris McMillan Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2024 (review in English by Russell Holden, published 240117)
Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup Jon Gemmell & Boria Majumdar(red) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2008 (Guy Osborn 100901)
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity Russell Holden Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2022 (review in English by Daniel Norcross, published 221123)
Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971: From Union to Isolation Bruce Murray, Richard Parry & Jonty Winch (eds.) London: Palgrave Macmillan 2018 (review in English by Russell Holden, published 200604)
Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right David Fraser London: Routledge 2005 (Bo Carlsson 060412)
Cricketing Lives: A characterful history from pitch to page Richard H. Thomas London: Reaktion Books 2021 (review in English by Russell Holden, published 220216)
Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket Duncan Stone London: Repeater Books 2022 (review in English by Daniel Norcross, published 230503)
Globalizing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity Dominic Malcolm London: Bloomsbury 2013 (Russell Holden 130417)
Ladies and Lords: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain Rafaelle Nicholson Bern: Peter Lang Publishing 2019 (review in English by Russell Holden, published 200408)
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket: C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg & Andrew Smith (eds.) Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2018 (Russell Holden 190402)
Nederland Joseph O’Neill (Översättning Boo Cassel) Stockholm: Brombergs 2009 (Lotta Wendel 100606)
On and Off the Field Ed Smith London: Viking 2004 (Bosse Carlsson 050208)
Playing with Fire: The Autobiography Nasser Hussain (med Paul Newman) London: Michael Joseph (Bosse Carlsson 050208)
Sport, Culture and History: Region, Nation and Globe Brian Stoddart Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2008 (Christer Ericsson 100127)
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2022 Lawrence Booth (ed.) London: Bloomsbury 2022 (review in English by Russell Holden, published 220622)