Boxing Day in Melbourne

To celebrate stumps on day one of the Boxing Day test match  here is a selection of new cricket books added to the library collections in 2012.

Chappell, Ian

Chappelli: life, larrikins & cricket 

Collis, Ian

Cricket through the decades 

Hawkins, Ed.

Bookie gambler fixer spy: a journey to the corrupt heart of cricket's underworld 

Knox, Malcolm

Bradman's war: how the 1948 invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield

Meher-Homji, Kersi

Cricket conflicts and controversies from pre-Bodyline to post-Bollyline

Piesse, Ken

Dynamic duos: cricket's finest pairs and partnerships

Valentine, Ian

Cricket: yesterday and today