Complete List of Books on Women's Cricket with Buying Links

Books are a man’s best friend, who would disagree. Reading is a recreation enjoyed by many however it is not just that. Books for many years have been a huge source of knowledge and information. Most importantly, books inspire us. While fantasies give us fictional heroes to look up to, autobiographies give us human ones. We can learn so much from simple documentation of a person’s life in their own words and also learn life lessons that will help us grow as individuals.

There are a lot of great books on cricket and its players. Everyone has heard of autobiographies of Sachin Tendulkar’s Playing it my way, AB – the autobiography by AB De Villiers, 281 and beyond by VVS Laxman, The Test of my Life by Yuvraj Singh, and many more. There are also books like Numbers Don’t Matter by Aakash Chopra and The Commonwealth of Cricket which captures the game well.

Unfortunately, like in this list, books on women’s cricket are scarce and in the books referred to above, women’s cricket usually does not or barely gets a mention. Even if there are only a few available, we are unaware of them. This is a problem because books are a huge influence in sparking interest in new topics. We have incredible autobiographies by other sportswomen such as Mary Kom, Saina Nehwal, and Sania Mirza. These books have sparked interest and also inspired young girls to pursue these sports. Cricket is the biggest sport in India but the spotlight on women’s cricket is dim and hence books on them have been minimal. Publications do not feel the need for these books because the demand is so little.

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Hence, we are going to bring the spotlight to books that have been published on women’s cricket.

Name of Book	Author	Year of Publishing	Link to Buy
Heyhoe! The Autobiography of Rachel Heyhoe Flint	Rachel Heyhoe Flint	1978	https://amzn.to/3ztH82W
Fair Play: The Story of Women’s Cricket	Netta Rheinberg and Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe-Flint	1976	Not available
Skirting the Boundary: A History of Women’s Cricket	Isabelle Duncan	2013	https://amzn.to/3pUrfzc
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India	Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Patnaik	2018	https://www.amazon.in/Fire-Burns-Blue-History-Cricket/dp/9387894436
The Warm Sun on My Face: The Story of Women’s Cricket in New Zealand	Adrienne Simpson and Trevor Auger	2020	Not available
Clearing Boundaries: The Rise of Australian Women’s Cricket	Fiona Bollen and Matt Bonser	2020	Not available
Rising Spell in Women’s Cricket	Dr. Roopali Slathia and Mukta Singla	2017	https://amzn.to/3mVScR6
Free Hit: The Story of Women’s Cricket in India	Suprita Das	2018	https://amzn.to/333JpWo
Enid Bakewell: Coalminer’s Daughter	Simon Sweetman	2018	Not available
Women at the Wicket: A History of Women’s Cricket in Interwar England Volume 4 of Cricket Witness	Adam McKie	2018	Not available
Girls of Summer: An Ashes Year with the England Women’s Cricket Team	David Tossell	2016	https://amzn.to/3FXirxZ
Shaker: Run-maker, Wicket-Taker	Lisa Sthalekar	2012	https://amzn.to/3eNQHjw
Perspective	Ellyse Perry	2019	https://amzn.to/3JFjdCe
Captain’s File – From Peden to Haynes: Australia’s Women’s Test Cricket Captains	Rob Harvey	2018	https://www.amazon.com/Captains-FIle-Haynes-Australias-Cricket/dp/1985183528
The Sport of Grace: Women’s Cricket in Victoria The beginning	Betty Butcher	1984	Not available
Ice Cream with Chilli Powder: A manager’s account of a Women’s Cricket Tour of India in the 1970s	Betty Butcher	1996	Not available
Cricket in Long Skirts: Women’s Cricket 1905-1916	Betty Butcher	2003	Not available
Women’s Test Cricket: The Golden Triangle 1934-84	Joan Lillian Hawes	1987	https://amzn.to/3znWfe2
Wicket Women: Cricket & Women in Australia	Amanda Weaver, Richard Cashman, and Sandra Glass	1991	https://amzn.to/3JDjUvM
Women’s Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence and Development of Women’s Cricket as a Global Game	Philippa Velija	2015	https://amzn.to/31qMNdt