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__**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."** This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by Robert Eastaway, a world authority on the sport, and co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. __Cricket Explained__ takes the reader from the game's fundamental —basic rules, terminology, equipment —to the finer points of strategy, individual playing styles, and cricket lore. 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. Among the topics covered in __Cricket Explained__'s concise, user-friendly entries are: — Cricket's history — Making sense of the action on the field — Batsmen and the batting order —

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Author

Robert Eastaway; Recorded Books, Inc

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250120205

Category

reference

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Social_sciences

Rating

4.5 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14