Robin Smith's Book Shortlisted For Cricket Book Of The Year

Robin Smith's book 'The Judge' has been nominated for The Heartaches Cricket Book of the Year at the Telegraph's Sports Book Awards 2020.

The Hampshire and England legend returned to the The Ageas Bowl in 2019 to launch the book which was written with Rob Smyth and includes forewords from both Shane Warne and Mark Nicholas.

Take a look at the video below to hear Mark Nicholas, Rod Bransgrove, Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb and Adam Hollioake talk about Robin Smith and his book.

'The Judge' has been nominated for the prestigious award alongside Sir Alastair Cook’s 'The Autobiography', Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Neville Cardus, 'The Great Romantic', the founder of the Professional Cricketers’ Association Fred Rumsey's, 'Sense of Humour, Sense of Justice', Zimbabwe wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu’s, 'Keeper of Faith', and Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde’s account of the T20 revolution, 'Cricket 2.0'.

The 2020 Telegraph Sports Book Awards winners will be digitally announced on July 15th with the online announcement replacing the traditional celebration at Lord’s Cricket Ground.

For more information on the 2020 Telegraph Sports Book Awards please click here.