Cricket XXXX Cricket is a lively, witty and affectionate memoir of English cricket in the late twentieth century, written by Frances Edmonds — best known as the wife of England off-spinner Phil Edmonds.
 
Unlike traditional player autobiographies, this book presents cricket from an insider-outsider perspective: the view from the pavilion steps, the committee room, and the social periphery of the professional game.
 
Published in 1987, Edmonds writes about: the personalities behind the players, the social rituals of county cricket, dressing-room culture (from the edge of it), tours and travel, cricket wives and family life; and the emotional rhythm of the English season.
 
Edmonds captures the eccentricities of English cricket culture — its hierarchies, traditions, and understated drama. This is a book about: relationships, domestic life around the cricket calendar,  emotional highs and lows of form, injury and selection.