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Welcome to The Cricket Publishing Company's new website.

The Cricket Publishing Company prides itself on publishing fine and limited edition cricket books. Since its first venture into the world of cricket publishing it has sought to redefine the quality cricket book market. Some of its books have been the recipient of awards, recognizing the subject or the quality of the book published. Subjects covered include history, tours, biography, collection of writings and the well received ‘boys own annual stories’. We have a strong publishing program that will see seven books being published in the next twelve months.

Cricket Quirky Cricket

Cricket Quirky Cricket will amuse and intrigue. It’s a collection of hard-to-
believe facts.

There was a first-class cricketer from Fiji who had a surname of 44 letters.
A Sri Lankan first-class cricketer had 10 initials before his surname. There
have been county cricketers named Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
and George Bernard Shaw and a current Indian player named Napoleon
Einstein.

Bradman at Blackheath

The famous match at Blackheath Sports Ground in November 1931 when Don Bradman scored a century in three 8-ball overs. Written by Ronald Cardwell / Irene McKilligan

The World on Tour

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“The World on Tour – The Untold Story of Cricket’s World XI” is the previously untold story of the Commonwealth and World XI teams that played from 1945 to 2006. During this time the world’s best cricketers were able to display their cricket skills against teams from England, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, India, Pakistan and Ceylon.