The memoirs and biography of several well-known cricketers have been written after they have retired from competitive cricketing. “Playing it My Way” is the title of Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography, while “Sunny Days” is the title of M.L. Jaisimha’s biography of Sunil Gavaskar, authored by M.L. Jaisimha.
An autobiography is a written account of one’s own life that is authored by the author. A biography, on the other hand, is a written account of someone’s life written by someone else.
The primary motivation for publishing an autobiography or biography is to disseminate information about one’s difficult life to the general public or to one’s fans. Occasionally, the author wishes to make a profit from the sale of his or her books.
In this post, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the most notable biographies and autobiographies of famous cricket players from around the world, which you may read online.
| Book Name | Based On | Author |
| 1. Cricket Delightful (1967) | Mushtaq Ali | Mushtaq Ali |
| 2. One More Over (1977) | Erapalli Prasanna | Erapalli Prasanna |
| 3. Sunny Days (1977) | Sunil Gavaskar | M.L. Jaisimha |
| 4. Imran (1983) | Imran Khan | Imran Khan with Patrick Murphy |
| 5. Beating the Field Brian (1956) | Brian Lara | Brian Lara |
| 6. Wasim (1998) | Wasim Akram | Wasim Akram with Patrick Murphy |
| 7. Courtney: Heart of the Lion (1999) | Courtney Walsh | Courtney Walsh |
| 8. White Lightning Allan Donald (1999) | Allan Donald | Allan Donald with Patrick Murphy |
| 9. Aravinda: My Autobiography (1999) | Aravinda de Silva | Aravinda de Silva with Shahriar Khan |
| 10. Sir Vivian: The Definitive Autobiography (2000) | Vivian Richards | Vivian Richards with Bob Harris |
| 11. Shane Warne: My
Autobiography (2002) |
Shane Warne | Shane Warne |
| 12. Menace: The Autobiography (2003) | Dennis Lillee | Dennis Lillee |
| 13. Cutting Edge: My Autobiography (2004) | Javed Miandad | Javed Miandad |
| 14. Playing with Fire: The Autobiography (2004) | Nasser Hussain | Nasser Hussain |
| 15. Straight from the Heart (2004) | Kapil Dev | Kapil Dev |
| 16. Gazza: The Gary Kirsten Autobiography (2004) | Gary Kirsten | Gary Kirsten with Neil Manthorp |
| 17. Calling The Shots (2005) | Michael Vaughan | Michael Vaughan |
| 18. Out of My Comfort Zone (2006) | Steve Waugh | Steve Waugh |
| 19. The Nice Guy Who Finished First (2006) | Rahul Dravid | D. Prabhudesai |
| 20. Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007) | Shane Warne | Simon Wilde |
| 21. Cricket’s Troubled Genius (2007) | Brian Lara | Brian Scovell |
| 22. The Definitive Biography (2008) | Sachin Tendulkar | Vaibhav Purandare |
| 23. Line and Strength (2008) | Glenn McGrath | Glenn McGrath |
| 24.True Colours (2008) | Adam Gilchrist | Adam Gilchrist |
| 25. Portrait of a Rebel (2009) | Kevin Pietersen | Marcus Stead |
| 26. Standing My Ground (2010) | Matthew Hayden | Matthew Hayden |
| 27. Jack Hobbs: England’s Greatest Cricketer (2011) | Jack Hobbs | Leo McKinstry |
| 28. Don’s Century (2011) | Don Bradman | Indra Vikram Singh |
| 29. Controversially Yours (2011) | Shoaib Akhtar | Shoaib Akhtar |
| 30. To The Point (2011) | Herschelle Gibbs | Herschelle Gibbs with Steve Smith |
| 31. Brett Lee: My Life (2011) | Brett Lee | Brett Lee, James Knight |
| 32. The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back (2012) | Yuvraj Singh | Yuvraj Singh |
| 33. Ponting: At the Close of Play (2013) | Ricky Ponting | Ricky Ponting |
| 34. Playing It My Way (2014) | Sachin Tendulkar | Sachin Tendulkar with Boria Majumda |
| 35. AB de Villiers – The Autobiography (2016) | AB de Villiers | AB de Villiers |
| 36. Driven: The Virat Kohli Story (2016) | Virat Kohli | Vijay Lokapally |
| 37. The Journey (2017) | Steve Smith | Steve Smith |
| 38. A Century Is Not Enough (2018) | Sourav Ganguly | Sourav Ganguly with Gautam Bhattacharya |
| 39. No Spin: My Autobiography (2018) | Shane Warne | Shane Warne |
| 40. Moeen (2018) | Moeen Ali | Moeen Ali with Mihir Bose |
| 41. 281 and Beyond (2018) | VVS Laxman | VVS Laxman with R Kaushik |