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Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself is the essential guide for cricketers of all ages who want to improve their all-round skills and player performance. Written by Mark Butcher, Captain of Surrey County Cricket Club and former England Captain, together with Paul Abraham, an ECB Level 3 Coach and Berkshire County Cricket Club Committee Chairman, this book will help you to improve every dimension of your game. It covers all aspects of the sport from preparing for the game to improving your batting, fielding and bowling techniques. It also gives essential advice on tactical play, coaching, umpiring, scoring and most importantly the rules of the sport. Packed full of practices, training drills and key advice from Butcher and Abraham, this book will help you reach your full potential.
Teach Yourself - the world`s leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals. Let our expert author guide you through this brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book. Go online at www.teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don`t have much time, don`t worry - every book gives you 1, 5 and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.
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Why play cricket?
Safety
Fitness for cricket
Warm-up and cool down
Nutrition for cricketers
Fielding
The cricket ball
Fielding positions and principles
Close catching
Throwing
Pick up and throw
Retrieving and throwing
Batting
Equipment
Grip and stance
Backswing and step
The drive
The forward defensive
The back defensive
The pull shot
The square cut
The late cut
Hitting full pitch to leg
Hitting full pitch to off
The front foot leg glance
The back foot leg glance
The sweep shot
The hook shot
Hitting 'over the top'
Facing fast bowling
Facing slow bowling
Judging what shot to play
Running between the wickets
Backing Up
Bowling
The basic grip
The run up and approach
Seam and swing bowling
Off spin
Leg spin
Wicket keeping
Equipment
Stance
Taking the ball
Stumping
Standing back
Captaincy
Tactical play
Setting an attacking field
Setting a leg-side field
Setting an off-side field
Setting a defensive field
Motivating your team
Coaching
Parenting a young cricketer
Training for cricket
Net management and safety
Bowling machines
Umpiring
10 ways of getting out
The signals
Scoring
The scorebook
Scoring
The rules of cricket
Glossary
Useful contacts
ISBN: 9781444134292
ISBN-10: 1444134299
Series: Teach Yourself
Published: 26th November 2010
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: John Murray Press
Edition Type: Digital original
























