Ball sports / ball games

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Cricket Book of the YearJazbaa - Definition:spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotionIn 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia.

A team of writers for The Athletic chronicles Manchester City Football Club's 2020-2021 season and their return to the top in this collection of articles.

Rangers 101 distils the history of the most successful football club in the world, Glasgow Rangers F.

Aberdeen have competed on the European stage since season 1967/68 and have enjoyed some epic encounters along the way, culminating in the club's greatest ever victory - beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the 1983 Cup Winner's Cup final.

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Revised and Updated Third EditionFor almost 140 years the Welsh rugby team has battled proudly on the international stage.

Rene Stauffer has been closely covering Roger Federer's career for nearly 25 years.

One video can change your life.

An Official Licensed Product of the British & Irish LionsA British & Irish Lions tour presents one of the greatest challenges in sport.

Ken Scotland was born on 29 August 1936 within sight of Heriot's Goldenacre ground, which he would go onto grace with great panache and skill several years later.

Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the YearAmong the best stories in modern British team sport has been the rise of Exeter Chiefs.

*****Shortlisted for International Autobiography of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021WINNER OF 2019 DANISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brutally candid.

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heroic outsider - a pleasure to read.

A new edition of Rob Eastaway's classic guide to the rules of cricket.

'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city'S o Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history.

Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period.

Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy.

The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional golfer.

This is the story of a genius with flaws.

The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box was sold in a controversial international auction on 10 September 2001, the day before the infamy of the Twin Towers attack.

True Storey is the compelling autobiography of notorious 1970s football legend Peter Storey, dubbed 'the bastard's bastard', who gained a reputation for ultra-violence on the pitch and had a capacity to find even greater trouble off it - a fact borne out by a string of criminal convictions and several jail sentences.

Robbie Savage could have been just another Manchester United reject.

***FOREWORD BY FABIO CAPELLO***Since their first appearance in the competition in 1950, England's World Cup story has been one of broken dreams, bad luck, shock losses and penalty nightmares, with one shining exception in 1966, when they famously won the Cup after beating Germany 4-2.

Mark Wilson's whole life has been about the moment when he steps on to Old Trafford to make his first appearance for Man Utd.

Golf for Beginning Players provides solid advice on swing, position and feel that is more sensible that the lions share of gimmickry peddled in contemporary golf literature.

The hero of 2011 was Martin Snedden.

Benji Marshall is a once?

The biography of war hero, All Black and our most successful All Black coach, Fred Allen

Shane Bond Looking Back is the remarkable story of one of New Zealand's greatest fast bowlers; a bowler who in his heyday was so ruthlessly efficient at his art, that he was feared by cricketers the world over.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs .

First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U.

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This football book is about something even more important than the "e;beautiful game"e;; it is a story of the human spirit.

NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTERThis is a special era in the history of tennis.

'Completely brilliant' Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe.

Once the preserve of the English, now, for nations the world over, summertime means cricket bats to be oiled, rain forecasts analysed and tea in the pavilion.

"e;Bloody obvious isn't it: tell the defenders to route one out to Drogba"e; "e;That's what they've been doing all night and look where it's got them"e;"e;The final ball has just not been weighted enough; in any case, his touch is too heavy"e;"e;GBP120,000 a week and look how little they put themselves about"e;"e;Players today are mercenaries: in my day they lived and died for their local team.

The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria SharapovaIn the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.

With a flamboyant approach to the game on and off the pitch, Australia's greatest bowler Shane Warne is an irresistible cricketing force.

In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales.

For 125 years, the GAA has been a fixed point in a fast-changing age, and this oral history marks the125th anniversary of the Association.

As former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'.

In 100 GAA Greats, John Scally celebrates the most significant players Gaelic games have brought us in their 125-year history.

Tipperary native Paddy Russell has been one of the leading referees in the GAA for the past 30 years.

Brian Clough's forty-four-day tenure as manager of Leeds United in 1974 is one of the most infamous episodes in British football history.

Mark Ramprakash is arguably the greatest English batsman of his generation, but he is also an enigma.

Wales were written off as no-hopers at the start of the 2008 Six Nations.

For 16 years, Darragh S wore the number 8 jersey for Gaelic football's most celebrated county, stoking the fires in Kerry's engine room.

Since making his national debut in 1998, Stephen Jones has emerged from the shadows of the true greats of Welsh rugby, such as Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins, to make the fly-half position his own.

Don Revie and Brian Clough were born a brisk walk away from each other in Middlesbrough, in 1927 and 1935 respectively.

The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular.