Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his Shastbury writings.

Chosen and introduced by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Cardus on Cricket features a range of writings from Cricket, Days in the Sun, The Summer Game, Good Days, Australian Summer and The Manchester Guardian.