Peter Arnold has been in publishing all his working life, most of the time writing or editing books on sports and games. Among his half-century or so titles are several on cricket, some in collaboration with Peter Wynne-Thomas, including An Encyclopedia of Cricket and Cricket in Conflict. Peter Wynne-Thomas is a Committee Member and archivist of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, and runs a specialist book shop Sport-in-Print, opposite the Trent Bridge Ground. He compiled The Complete History of Cricket Tours, co-authored Who's Who of Cricketers, is a regular contributor to cricket magazines and to Wisden Cricketers Almanac.

Introduction; History of cricket; Cricket around the world; The great cricketers; Test cricket; The Cricket World Cup; International Limited-overs cricket; Twenty20 cricket; The famous grounds.