THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Chronicle of Cricket' brings together the top name in quality newspaper sports coverage and the premier name in sports books to tell the story of 100 years of the nation's favourite summer game.

For each cricketing year all the way back to 1876, the best articles and despatches have been compiled from ' The Daily Telegraph' to give the essential flavour of those twelve months of cricket. The contemporary reports from 'Telegraph' correspondents recount the full history of cricket at Test and county level in a way which retains the vibrancy and immediancy of the events; and with some of the most famous names in cricket journalism having worked for the newspaper, the book is full of famous bylines from the likes of E.W.Swanton, Michael Melford and Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

But for the lovers of cricket the real joy of this book will be to reliving the special moments that made the headlines and the outstanding players that have been the making of the game, including 19th century heroes such as W.G.Grace; the batsmanship of Bradman for Australia and Hutton for England in the 1930s; Ramadhin and Valentine at Lord's in 1950 and the later heroics of May and Cowdrey; Botham's Ashes series; the classic domestic one-day finals and cliff-hanging finishes to the County Championships; and all the drama of the modern-day World Cup including triumphs for Kapil Dev's India and Imran Khan's Pakistan.

Each year's coverage also includes a diary of events and a summary of all Test series played; each decade introduced and put into context by the editor Norman Barrett; and there are special features on the key issues in cricket history that have seen the game at the cross-roads, including the Bodyline series, the D'Oliveira affair, Kerry Packer's dramatic intervention, and the end of apartheid and South Africa's insolation.