Recommended Reading

Here are a few books of interest to Flem fans. If you have any suggested additions to this list, please email me.

Cricketing Safari
By Stephen Fleming and Nathan Astle
This is Flem and Nathe's tour diaries from the rather mixed 2000 tour of Africa. I have written a brief review of this book.

New Zealand Test Cricket Captains
By Matthew Appleby
This book contains chapters on each of New Zealand's 25 Test captains and comprehensive statistics. The chapter on Fleming, which covers his captaincy career, background and style, is perhaps the most extensive and best-researched, and was written in close consultation with Fleming, who also wrote a preface to the book. The chapters on some of the lesser captains, however, are more patchy and contain occasional errors.

Biographies:
Some of Fleming's team-mates have produced biographies which, naturally, refer to theiir captain. These include Chris Cairns by Hamish McDouall, Chris Harris' The Chris Harris Story, Gavin Larsen's Grand Larseny and Adam Parore's The Wicked Keeper (by Angus Gilles). From a slightly earlier period, there are books by Glenn Turner (sometime coach), Danny Morrison and Ken Rutherford...