Books

Between hard covers.

Three decades of match reports and blog posts, and four times the work has stretched to book length — from a Test batter's biography to the umpire who's seen it all from the middle.

Cover: Marais Erasmus — The Rock 'n Roll Years
2026 · Naledi Books

Marais Erasmus: The Rock 'n Roll Years

A biography of Marais Erasmus, one of the game's most respected umpires — tracing his path through the 2019 World Cup final, a 2023 Lord's stumping controversy, and the story behind the “rock 'n roll” call at the video review, alongside the life beyond the boundary that shaped him.

Cover: The Nightwatchman, Issue 7
2014 · Wisden Cricket Quarterly

The Nightwatchman, Issue 7

A contribution to Wisden's quarterly journal of long-form cricket writing — home to some of the game's best storytelling outside the daily press, and still running.

Cover: Masterly Batting — 100 Great Test Innings
2013 · Contributor, ed. Patrick Ferriday

Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings

A collection profiling one hundred of Test cricket's greatest innings, drawn from more than a century of the format — with me among the contributing writers.

Cover: In the Nick of Time — Peter Kirsten's Life in Cricket
1996 · Penguin Books

In the Nick of Time: Peter Kirsten's Life in Cricket

My first book — a biography of Peter Kirsten, one of the most technically gifted batters of his generation, tracing a career that spanned the isolation era of South African domestic cricket and the country's return to the international game.