The Boys' Guide to Cricket - Including Hints on Batting, Bowling, Fielding, and Equipment

By Anon Anon

“The Boys' Guide to Cricket” is a simple and concise guide to the game of cricket aimed at children. This volume covers all the basics of the game, from the required equipment and how to hold the bat to running, bowling, and beyond. Written in simple language and full of helpful diagrams, “The Boys' Guide to Cricket” is ideal for children with an interest in learning the game. Contents include: “Cricket”, “Bats”, “Weight and Size”, “Quality of Bat”, “Care of Bat”, “Pads”, “Batting Gloves”, “Boots”, “Ball”, “Hints on Batting”, “Holding the Bat”, “How to Stand”, “Playing the Ball”, “General Hints on Batting”, “Running”, “Bowling”, “Hints on Bowling”, “Hints on Fielding”, “Books on Cricket”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of cricket.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Sep 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473357327

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The Boys' Guide to Cricket

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Including Hints on Batting, Bowling,

Fielding, and Equipment

Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

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Contents

A Short History of Cricket

CRICKET

A Short History of Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each, on a field at the centre of which is a rectangular twenty-two-yard long pitch. Each team takes its turn to bat, attempting to score runs, while the other team fields. Each turn is known as an innings. Whilst this may sound reasonably simple – the game of cricket has a very long and varied history; changing with time and geographical location.

Early cricket was at some time or other described as ‘a club striking a ball (like) the ancient games of club-ball, stool-ball, trap-ball or stob-ball.’ The sport can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early sixteenth century England though. Further written evidence exists of a game known as ‘creag’ being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I, at Newenden, Kent, in 1301. There