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ISBN: 9781858684185
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: John Stern
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445493114
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Peter Arnold
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781847328670
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Covers every major facet of cricket in detail, accompanied by carefully chosen images. This title includes full coverage of England's 2010/11 Ashes series against Australia, the ICC Circket World Cup in 2011, and the Indian Premier League 2011 and the 2010 Twenty20 World Cup, which England won for the first time.

Author: Robert Eastaway
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250120209
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Revised and Updated for 2016! 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 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. 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 -- Fielders and fielding positions -- Fielding and batting tactics -- Scoring and statistics -- Bowling strategy -- How many players are required -- How runs are scored, outs are made, and a game is won -- Umpires and the rules -- Bowlers and their individual styles -- Different types of cricket played throughout the world

Author: Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496809890
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.

Author: Peter Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671089603
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Author: Peter Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741676624
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Mary Beth Allen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313068577
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.

Author: Richard Cox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113528721X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Author: Richard William Cox
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714652601
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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There has been an explosion in the quantity of sports history literature published in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to keep abreast of developments. The annual number of publications has increased from around 250 to 1,000 a year over the last decade. This is due in part to the fact that during the late 1980s and 90s, many clubs, leagues and governing bodies of sport have celebrated their centenaries and produced histories to mark this occasion and commemorate their achievements. It is also the result of the growing popularity and realisation of the importance of sport history research within academe. This international bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings and essays in the English language is a one-stop for the sports historian to know what is new.