Another quality publication from the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, with this tome focusing on South Australian cricketers, for whom I have a certain attachment. We Croweaters rarely have much to celebrate on the cricket field so this book at least allows us to relive the careers (statistically speaking) of some of the greats of South Australian cricket.

"South Australian cricketers 1877-1984" provides us with a brief introduction, some wonderful hand drawn maps of South Australia and very brief biographical details of everyone to have played a first-class match for South Australia in the period indicated by the title. Going through the records I couldn't help but be surprised by the number of cricketers born at the Wallaroo mines, a reminder of the importance tin mining played in South Australia's history. ( )