Cricket Explained - by Robert Eastaway (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor rounders. <br>This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by a world authority on the sport, the co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. Cricket Explained takes the reader from the game's fundamentals -- basic rules, terminology, equipment -- to the finer points of strategy, individual playing styles, and cricket lore. <br>The book includes a combined glossary/index for easy reference and is illustrated throughout with the lighthearted drawings of British cartoonist Mark Stevens. So even if you don't know short leg from silly mid off or a bowler from a batsman, you'll come away from Cricket Explained with an understanding for this truly international sport which, like baseball, is loved both for its elegant simplicity and its vexing complexity. <br>Among the topics covered in Cricket Explained's concise, user-friendly entries are: <br>-- Cricket's history<br>-- Making sense of the action on the field<br>-- Batsmen and the batting order<br>-- Fielders and fielding positions<br>-- Fielding and batting tactics<br>-- Scoring and statistics<br>-- Bowling strategy<br>-- How many players are required<br>-- How runs are scored, outs are made, and a game is won<br>-- Umpires and the rules<br>-- Bowlers and their individual styles<br>-- Different types of cricket played throughout the world</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor "rounders".<P>This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by a world authority on the sport, the co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. Cricket Explained takes the reader from the game's fundamentals -- basic rules, terminology, equipment -- to the finer points of strategy, individual playing styles, and cricket lore.<P>The book includes a combined glossary/index for easy reference and is illustrated throughout with the lighthearted drawings of British cartoonist Mark Stevens. So even if you don't know "short leg" from "silly mid off" or a bowler from a batsman, you'll come away from Cricket Explained with an understanding for this truly international sport which, like baseball, is loved both for its elegant simplicity and its vexing complexity.<P>Among the topics covered in Cricket Explained's concise, user-friendly entries are: <BR>-- Cricket's history<BR>-- Making sense of the action on the field<BR>-- Batsmen and the batting order<BR>-- Fielders and fielding positions<BR>-- Fielding and batting tactics<BR>-- Scoring and statistics<BR>-- Bowling strategy<BR>-- How many players are required<BR>-- How runs are scored, outs are made, and a game is won<BR>-- Umpires and the rules<BR>-- Bowlers and their individual styles<BR>-- Different types of cricket played throughout the world
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