Cricket Explained

Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiastic a user-friendly introduction to base-ball’s British Cousin, a game that shares with America’s national pastime the common ancestor "rounders".

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.

This book is best suited to somebody who has witnessed some cricket without having a clue what was going on. The book is filled with answers to questions typical of the ones a novice might ask (Why do they all wear white? Don't they all get bored? Who's winning???).

The book includes a combined glossary / index for easy reference and is illustrated throughout with the light hearted drawings of British cartoonist Mark Stevens. Fun cartoons throughout. 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.

Among the topics covered in the Cricket Explained’s concise, user- friendly entries are:

·         Cricket’s history

·         Making sense of the action on the field

·         Batsman and the batting order

·         Fielders and fielding positions

·         Scoring and statistics

·         Bowling strategy

·         How many players are required?

·         How runs are scored, outs are made, and the game is won

·         Umpires and the rules

·         Bowlers and their individual styles

·         Different types of cricket throughout the world