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Title: Understanding Cricket
Code: B40082
Author: Julia Hickey
Year: 2006
Length: 64 pages
Price: £6.99 
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Overview:

Understanding Cricket helps you unpick the complex rules, structures and jargon of the sport. It is packed with information to help you, or anyone with an interest in cricket, quickly demystify the sport and make learning about it fun.

This great book, suitable for adults and children, players and fans,features:
  • an introductory quiz to assess your existing knowledge and help you zoom into the right sections to help you improve your game
  • chapters on what you need to play cricket, the laws of the game, positions on the pitch, skills and much more
  • interactive tasks to test your understanding and progression as you work through the chapters
  • relevant websites to visit to further your knowledge of cricket
  • profiles of the cricket greats to inspire you to keep practising.

    Foreword

    The game of cricket is more popular now than it has ever been. It is a game enjoyed by people of many different nationalities around the world, attracting interest from those who play, coach or umpire the game, and those who simply watch from beyond the boundary rope.

    Whether you play or watch the game, and regardless of your level of knowledge or skill, you will find Understanding Cricket to be a very useful and interesting read. Once you have taken the opportunity to test your knowledge of the game, Understanding Cricket offers you the chance to find out more. For those interested in the history of cricket, the book describes the ways in which the game has developed through the ages up to the present day. Valuable guidance is given to anyone keen to start playing or watching the game, and profiles of the world¹s most famous cricketers can be found throughout. Understanding Cricket also provides a summary of the essential components required for a cricket match and the basic laws by which the sport is governed.

    As a cricketer with Yorkshire County Cricket Club, I have been fortunate to play cricket from grass-roots to professional level in a county with a reputation for its passion for the game. After the success of the Ashes-winning England team in 2005, many youngsters are beginning to take an interest in the wonderful game. In Understanding Cricket, these newcomers have a valuable tool to aid their learning and development. I hope that the game continues to prosper, attracting young people with an appreciation of the spirit in which the game should be played.

    Joe Sayers

    Yorkshire County Cricket Club

    • Contents:
    • Getting the most out of Understanding Cricket
    • Cricket through the ages
    • Getting Started
    • The Basics
    • The Ingredients of Cricket
    • Following the Progress of a Match
    • Different Ways of Being Given Out
    • More About Bowling and Batting
    • Fair and Unfair Play
    • Finding Out More
    • Glossary
    • Answers
    • Bibliography


    About the Author:

    Julia Hickey is an associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University with responsibility for Adult Basic Education. She is also author of the other titles in the Understanding Sport series.

    Understanding Cricket includes a foreword written by Yorkshire County Cricket Club professional, Joe Sayers.
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