Ten of the best books about cricket

Shehan Karunatilaka's novel Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the 2012 DSC prize for South Asian Literature and is shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.

He named his top ten books on cricket for the Guardian. One title on the list:
The Meaning of Sport, by Simon Barnes

This may be cheating. It's not strictly a cricket book, but then neither was the enchanting Netherland,