Best Audiobooks for Women Cricketers: The Female Athlete’s Audio Learning Guide

We went looking for the women’s cricket audiobooks, and the honest finding is that there are not many. We searched Audible’s catalogue by author and by keyword for women cricketers’ autobiographies and found essentially none, and the few first-person cricket voices in the whole catalogue are on the other side of the game.

We are not going to pretend otherwise, and we are not going to fill the gap with books about women in sport generally that have nothing to do with cricket. The catalogue is thin. Here is exactly what is in it, what is genuinely useful, and where you will have to look in print.

Everything below was checked against Audible’s catalogue before publishing, so the runtimes and narrators are current and every link goes to the exact product.

The facts

What it covers

The Diary of a Cricketer's Wife

The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife is by Puja Pujara, narrated by Vasundhra Bose and published by HarperCollins India in 2025. It is the closest thing in the entire Audible catalogue to a first-person cricket memoir by a woman, and it is not what you might expect.

The narrator marries into a cricketer’s family and discovers she is inside the game without any understanding of it. Her father does not follow cricket. Her relatives have opinions about her husband. The book works as a memoir because the cricket is the context of a marriage rather than the subject, which is what makes it useful rather than just interesting.

There is a passage early on about how a cricket-playing husband is an unusual thing for a family to have to explain. It is funny and it is also the most accurate description in this list of what the outside world thinks about the game.

Read by Vasundhra Bose · HarperCollins India. Listen on Audible

Mithali Raj

There is one audiobook in Audible’s catalogue with a woman cricketer’s name on it. It is Mithali Raj, a fifteen-minute profile published by Storytel Original IN in Hindi, written by Harshit Gupta and Yashwant Kasotia and narrated by Rahul Patil and Ratna Saksena.

We are including it because it is genuinely in the catalogue and because leaving it out would misrepresent what is there. But it is fifteen minutes, it is in Hindi, and it is a profile rather than an account. Anyone expecting Mithali Raj’s own story will not find it here.

If you are English-speaking and want the Indian women’s cricket story told at length, the place to look is her own book, which was published in print and is not available as an audiobook.

Read by Rahul Patil and Ratna Saksena · Storytel Original IN. Listen on Audible

Grit

Angela Duckworth’s Grit is not about cricket and it does not pretend to be. It is about the finding that sustained effort over months predicts who completes something difficult better than talent does, supported by her research on West Point cadets.

For a woman cricketer in a system where selection has historically depended on physical comparison rather than recorded performance, the argument is relevant in a specific way. Grit is a claim about what predicts an outcome, and it is one that favours the player who has been in the system longer and been given fewer chances.

Read by the author. The first two hours carry the argument, and the case studies that follow are the ones worth the time.

Read by Angela Duckworth · Simon & Schuster Audio. Listen on Audible

The Pressure Principle

The Pressure Principle is by Dr Dave Alred, a performance coach, and he reads it himself. Nine hours and twenty-two minutes, published by Penguin Audio in 2022.

Alred’s argument is that pressure is not the absence of control but a specific, learnable set of changes in what you attend to. The practical sections give you things to do in the two minutes before you go out to bat, which is more useful than a theory of why you feel the way you do.

He worked in elite sport with athletes across codes, and the book is full of examples from outside cricket, which is part of why it transfers.

Read by Dr Dave Alred MBE · Penguin Audio. Listen on Audible

Mindset

Carol Dweck’s Mindset is about how people interpret difficulty, and it comes with a caveat worth knowing: Dweck has been fairly criticised for overstating what the mindset experiments show, and the popular version of this book oversells it.

The underlying idea is sound, though. Treating a setback as information about your current state rather than as evidence about your ability does change what you do next, and that is the part worth taking.

Read by Bernadette Dunne, ten hours and twenty-three minutes. The first third is the argument; the rest is application.

Read by Bernadette Dunne · Random House Audio. Listen on Audible

The Mindful Athlete Audio Companion

The Mindful Athlete Audio Companion is one hour and fifty minutes, narrated by George Mumford, who has worked with a lot of elite American athletes. It asks very little: attention, breath, and noticing your own reaction.

The reason it is here is that at one hour and fifty minutes it is the shortest full-length title on the list and the easiest to complete, which matters more than usual when the books you want most are the ones you will not get to.

Most of it works at low volume or with one ear, which makes it the most usable title for a long drive or a session in the gym.

Read by George Mumford · BetterListen. Listen on Audible

Performing Under Pressure

Performing Under Pressure is the longest and most academic title here, at eleven hours, by two performance psychologists. The argument is that pressure harms performance by redirecting attention rather than by adding stress.

The chapter on giving attention somewhere other than the outcome is the transferable part, and it translates into cricket more cleanly than it does into most of the situations the authors describe.

Read by Michael Butler Murray. It is a book for when you have the time, not for the week before a tournament.

Read by Michael Butler Murray · Random House Audio. Listen on Audible

The Inner Game of Tennis

The Inner Game of Tennis is the book most often recommended to any batter who is in their own head, and it earns the recommendation. Gallwey separates the instruction you give yourself while you are performing from the instruction you meant to give yourself, and shows what happens when you try to run both at once.

Under five hours, so it is finishable, and it is the oldest book here without feeling dated because the problem it describes has not changed.

Read by Dan Woren, in the 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Pete Carroll.

Read by Dan Woren · Random House Audio. Listen on Audible

Six Machine

Chris Gayle’s Six Machine is the story of a batter who decided what he was for early and then had to live with the consequences. Read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu for Penguin, eight hours and forty-one minutes.

What makes it worth a place on a list for women cricketers is the candour. Gayle is frank about the volatility, the sponsor pressure and the crowd, and about a batting order that did not always treat him as the player the crowd had come for.

A book about navigating a system that does not quite have a place for you is more broadly useful than it sounds.

Read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu · Penguin. Listen on Audible

Who it is for, and who it is not

This is for women cricketers at every level, and for the coaches and parents who are trying to find something to put in a player’s hands that is not a biography of somebody else entirely.

It is also for anyone who has been disappointed by the thinness of the women’s cricket shelf and wants a straight answer rather than a padded list. The short answer is that the audiobook catalogue has a gap, and it is not going to be filled by a listicle. The gap is in audio, not in books: Mithali Raj, Ellyse Perry, Sarahwyne Tasker and others have written, and the print editions exist.

How to get the most from it

Start with the diary if you want something that is actually about cricket. Everything else on this list is a performance book that happens to be relevant to a woman cricketer rather than a book about women in cricket, and it is worth being clear about which of those you are looking for.

Use the library for the print books. Your local lending app may have Mithali Raj’s autobiography or Ellyse Perry’s, and the audiobook catalogue is not the only way in. We would rather point you at a library than pad a list.

Do not over-invest in the self-help titles. The research on pressure and attention is well made and applies to everyone, but the single most useful thing a player can do is watch high-level women’s cricket with the specific question of how the top players set themselves up. That is free, and it is what these books are second best at.

If you are coaching, the gap in this list is a gap in your own preparation as much as in the catalogue. Reading one of these before a season is worth more than assigning them to a squad.

• Be clear about which shelf you need: cricket autobiography, or performance skill. The audiobook catalogue is much stronger on the second.
• Use library lending for the first: the print biographies are there and the audio editions are mostly not.
• Watch before you read: high-level women’s cricket is the best available coaching and it is free.
• Take one idea per title: the performance books are wide, and a narrow use beats a broad one.
• Do not wait for a better list: the honest version of this list is more useful than a padded one.

Common questions

Are there any women cricketer autobiographies on Audible?

Barely. We searched Audible’s catalogue by author and keyword and found no women cricketer autobiographies at all. The single title with a woman cricketer’s name on it is a fifteen-minute profile of Mithali Raj published by Storytel Original IN, in Hindi, which is a profile rather than an account. The genuinely first-person cricket memoir by a woman in the catalogue is The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife, which is about cricket from the inside of a cricketer’s family.

What should I read if I want to hear from women who have played at the highest level?

Print, and the library. Mithali Raj’s autobiography, Ellyse Perry’s autobiography and Sarahwyne Tasker’s Behind the Boxes are all published in book form, and your local lending app may have them depending on what your library stocks. We have not linked them here because we only link titles we have verified, and we have not verified a current edition of those. The audiobook versions do not appear to exist in this catalogue.

Is this list just generic self-help books for women?

Mostly, yes, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. The performance titles here are strong books that apply to any cricketer and they happen to be useful for women cricketers for the same reason they are useful for anyone. What we have not done is pretend that a book about women in sport generally is a cricket resource, because it is not. The cricket-specific material here is genuinely thin.

Why is there so little women’s cricket on audio?

We do not have a definitive answer and we are not going to invent one. The likely reasons are the same ones that affect the wider audiobook market, where non-fiction titles by women are consistently less likely to be produced. What is clear is the size of the gap on this specific topic, and it is worth being aware of it as a reader so you do not assume you have missed something.

Which of these would help most with performance?

The Pressure Principle, if you have nine hours. It is practical, it is short enough to finish in a fortnight, and it gives you specific things to do before you go out to bat rather than a theory of why pressure feels the way it does. If you have an hour, The Mindful Athlete Audio Companion. If you have a whole season, Performing Under Pressure, which is the deepest treatment and the most work.

Written by the CricketGearGuru editorial team. Every title above was checked against Audible’s own catalogue on the day this page was published, so the narrator, the running time and the edition are the current ones. The links are affiliate links, so we may earn a commission if you buy through them at no extra cost to you.