Cricket is defined by the people who have participated in it, observed it, commented on it, made decisions based on it, damaged it, and enjoyed it. Cricketing Lives is an insightful, humorous, and warmly sentimental account of one of the world's greatest and most baffling sports through the eyes of those who have helped to create it, from the simple matches of eighteenth-century England to the exhilarating spectacle of the Indian Premier League. This book profiles early greats like W.G. Grace and K.S. Ranjitsinghji, run-machine Don Bradman and his infamous foe Douglas Jardine, dashing star Tiger Pataudi and unstoppable legend Viv Richards, great all-rounders like Gary Sobers, Imran Khan, Ian Botham, and Kapil Dev, spin magician Jim Laker and stunning pace bowler Michael Holding, "the best wicketkeeper in the world," Sarah Taylor, and Har Leading sports writers have praised this "characterful history" as being "so colourful and skillfully recounted" and "so carefully researched" that it would appeal to "even those who find the game uninteresting" and is rich with uncommon detail and incredibly entertaining!