Top 10 books about cricket

Ahead of this week’s England-Pakistan Test match, acclaimed historian David Kynaston selects favourites from one of sport’s richest literaturesIt is often claimed that cricket has the richest literature of any sport. Possibly an exaggeration – baseball also has strong claims – but undeniably it is rich. And almost certainly I am not the only cricket-minded person who, getting older, derives as much pleasure from reading about the game as actually watching it.Why so rich?