Cricket Explained

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