Remarkable Cricket Grounds: An illustrated guide to the world’s best cricket grounds

New Zealanders, of whom I am one, are reduced to a love of Test Crisket as they approach their 70th Birthdays. The idea of watching your team in a game of five days, on a peaceful and quiet ground, with lunch and cool beer is a huge attraction to those of the male persuasion still to be found in the "English" world. What better accompaniment than this book, of the great cricket grounds of the world, where New Zealand has lost most of the tests we have ever played. And all from your own home and less than $50 skillfully and quickly delivered. What more can I say? perhaps to an American eye this is a pecular nonsense, but believe me a day without a pandemic report, or the face of Andrew Fauci is a day in Heaven. I whole heartedly recommend it.

Love it. Perfect gift for my English husband and beautiful images.

A great companion to the also beautiful Village Cricket book.

A coffee table style book that, even though it’s all about cricket grounds across the globe, will be picked up and flicked through by anyone who comes round your house. Whilst the text might only be of interest to a fan of the game, the photos will appeal to most. And those are what makes this book. Seventy eight grounds ranging from Test Match venues to the sands at Elie in Scotland where a plastic ball is used amongst other special ground rules. You may laugh, but MCC are regular visitors. There are also a few places where you wouldn’t expect cricket to be played; St. Moritz (where sight screens aren’t needed), Oahu Island in Hawaii, Slovenia and South Korea amongst many. The narrative of each ground gives a history and a few other bits of information but it’s the photos that really steal the show. Yes, we all know what Lords, Headingley, the SCG, etc. look like but if location and vista was the criteria for Test Match grounds, then Queenstown and Te Awanga in New Zealand, Valley of the Rocks in Devon, Himachal Pradesh in India (which has staged a few ODI matches) and both Coniston and New Field in Sedbergh Cumbria would be top of the list. Padang Field in Singapore is also stunning, albeit surrounded by ‘soaring high-rises’, as is Vincent Square simply because it’s a small oasis of tree surrounded calm slap bang in the middle of London. However, the most amazing of them all is Grade 1 listed Portchester Castle where a C12th Norman keep and a complete circuit of Roman walls (the finest in Northern Europe) enclose the cricket ground. With Bamburgh Castle, Maifeld in Berlin where Hitler held his rallies and was the site of the 1936 Olympics, and a few historic houses included in the 78, many grounds are worth visiting not just for the cricket aficionado but history buffs too. You’ll need deep pockets though.

Fantastic book, with some wonderful cricket grounds. Great to see its not just the big international grounds, but the special little grounds as well.

The book is leaning too much to British Cricket which in today’s world is overshadowed by Australian, Indian and other cricketing countries. Also, the author calls the Eden Gardens in Kolkata Eden Park on page 64; proof reading and quality control Mr Levison

Me and my dad learned a lot about these stadiums.

A coffee table style book that, even though it’s all about cricket grounds across the globe, will be picked up and flicked through by anyone who comes round your house. Whilst the text might only be of interest to a fan of the game, the photos will appeal to most. And those are what makes this book. Seventy eight grounds ranging from Test Match venues to the sands at Elie in Scotland where a plastic ball is used amongst other special ground rules. You may laugh, but MCC are regular visitors. There are also a few places where you wouldn’t expect cricket to be played; St. Moritz (where sight screens aren’t needed), Oahu Island in Hawaii, Slovenia and South Korea amongst many. The narrative of each ground gives a history and a few other bits of information but it’s the photos that really steal the show. Yes, we all know what Lords, Headingley, the SCG, etc. look like but if location and vista was the criteria for Test Match grounds, then Queenstown and Te Awanga in New Zealand, Valley of the Rocks in Devon, Himachal Pradesh in India (which has staged a few ODI matches) and both Coniston and New Field in Sedbergh Cumbria would be top of the list. Padang Field in Singapore is also stunning, albeit surrounded by ‘soaring high-rises’, as is Vincent Square simply because it’s a small oasis of tree surrounded calm slap bang in the middle of London. However, the most amazing of them all is Grade 1 listed Portchester Castle where a C12th Norman keep and a complete circuit of Roman walls (the finest in Northern Europe) enclose the cricket ground. With Bamburgh Castle, Maifeld in Berlin where Hitler held his rallies and was the site of the 1936 Olympics, and a few historic houses included in the 78, many grounds are worth visiting not just for the cricket aficionado but history buffs too. You’ll need deep pockets though.

Excellent

Bought this for my Dad who’s a cricket tragic and also is an ideal book for the coffee table. Exquisite photography in a nice hardcover style book. Well worth it!

A lovely book for the cricket lover, high quality photographs of cricket grounds round the world, from rough, sloping village fields in England to Test arenas at home and overseas, and everything in between. There is great variety, and a lot of photos. This is a large book, bigger than A4 in area, and over 200 pages. The photographs are accompanied by well researched facts and figures, though the emphasis is on the photos.

As it was reported to me, the cricket fan loves the book (it was a birthday present). I took a quick look through it before gifting it away and I found the images are beautiful and the whole book is well put together. It will make a gorgeous reference book to grace the coffee table. Ha! :)