"The Observer on Cricket" is a selection from the sports pages of Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper. The collection includes articles by R.C.Robertson, Alan Ross, Hugh McIlvanney and Scyld Berry, all cricket correspondents for "The Observer". Occasional contributors here include names as diverse as Neville Cardus, Barry Norman and Shiva Naipaul, all of them providing a selection of portraits, profiles and obituaries of famous cricketers together with discussions of match reports and cricketing styles.