Product Description

Whether you’re a weekend cricketer or aspiring armchair expert, Cricket For Dummies helps you make sense of this fascinating sport. Not just a jargon busting guide to cricket’s laws, techniques and tactics, it also contains advice on kitting yourself out and provides lessons on playing the game and improving your batting, bowling and fielding skills. For the budding fan, there’s a guide to the greatest players, the memorable matches, and a tour through the cricketing scene – both domestic and international – giving you the knowledge you need to fully appreciate this special game.

This book has been updated for the Ashes 2009, featuring revised information on new players, the Indian premier league, Stanford 20:20 and the latest coverage of past and future competitions.

Julian Knight is a BBC journalist, writer, and cricket enthusiast. He is a former youth coach and captain, and has been a club cricketer for over 20 years.
Consultant Editor Gary Palmer played first class cricket for ten years with Somerset before becoming a professional coach.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58246 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

Review
"A jargon–busting, comprehensive guide to cricket." (Cricket World, November 2006)

Review
"A jargon–busting, comprehensive guide to cricket." (Cricket World, November 2006)

From the Back Cover
Includes a diagram of fielding positions for easy reference

A complete guide to cricket for players and fans

Whether you′re a budding player or aspiring armchair expert, Cricket For Dummies will help you get to grips with this fascinating sport. Inside you′ll find an outline of the game′s laws plus in–depth advice on improving your playing techniques and tactics. You′ll also discover the tournaments, global rivalries, and great players that make today′s game so compelling.

Discover how to

• Master cricket′s basic rules
• Hone your playing skills
• Devise winning tactics as a player and a team
• Coach your children to play
• Follow every format of the game – from Twenty20 to Tests

Customer Reviews

Excellent for beginners and cricket lovers alike
I bought his book for a Dutch colleague from work who was interested in learning about cricket in wake of the 2009 Ashes. I searched through a number of books and this one appealed the most. Partly due to content, but also due to very good experiences with previous "Dummies" books.

This is a definite purchase for anyone, addict or newcomer, looking for a guide and companion to cricket.

I have played and followed cricket all my life and I believed the book was pitched at the right level for my colleague to understand.

When the book arrived I gave it to my colleague and had a flick through myself. I was very interested in the content and this prompted me to buy a copy for myself as there were many areas for the cricket lover that could also be enjoyed.

Since owning the book I have read it most nights and it has been fascinating. Furthermore, my wife has even taken a little more interest the game after a few glances at the book.

As for my colleague, he says that the book is excellent and has thoroughly enjoyed reading it. He feels his understanding of the game has improved and certainly his knowledge has come on leaps and bounds. But most importantly, he is developing an unhealthy love for the game. We now enjoy good conversations during and around matches and he has only owned it for 3 weeks.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book for beginners and cricket lovers alike. The book is comprehensive and accessible for newcomers combined with facts and stories for the addicts. It is excellently written and painstakingly researched and the author's love of the game really shines through, without being overbearing.

A definite purchase.

Cricket Dummy
If you're an anorak for detail you'll love this book! I got it for my 11 yr old daughter so she could learn the finer points of the noble game. It certainly does that - diagrams of fielding positions etc - and is a good read for the cricket buff with some history of the game, its heroes and its ups n'downs.

A fun read to learn about cricket
What a great book. Although long an armchair cricket fan and enjoy a saunter down to watch the local village cricket or county games, I always felt the jargon involved was a bit beyond my reach. Well, no More!
Cricket for Dummies has really opened up the sport in a way I have never imagined. I now sound very professional as I discuss cricket down at County grounds or while watching internationals.
The book makes it really FUN to learn. Bah Humbug to my old school teacher who made cricket a trial rather than fun.