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Cricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings (always with a terminal "s" in cricket usage) during which one team bats and one team fields.
If, in a two-innings match, the first team to bat is dismissed in their second innings with a combined first- and second-innings score less than the first-innings score of their opponents (a relatively rare occurrence), the match is concluded and they are said to have lost by an innings and n runs, where n is the difference in score between the teams. If the team batting last is dismissed with the scores exactly equal, i.e., they are one run short of their target (an extremely rare occurrence) the match is a tie.
If the match has only a single innings per side, with a set number of deliveries, and the match is temporarily interrupted by bad weather, then a complex mathematical formula known as the Duckworth-Lewis method is often used to recalculate a new target score. A one-day match can be declared a "No-Result" if fewer than a previously agreed number of overs have been bowled by either team. This can occur if an interruption makes a resumption of play impossible, for example an extended period of bad weather or an unruly crowd.
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The Ultimate Guide To Weight Training for Cricket (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 8)
by Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cricket is the most comprehensive and up-to-date cricket-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round cricket-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.
No other cricket book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder. He has helped thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their goals. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder of the #1 Sports-Training website on the Internet.
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Cricket Explained
by Robert Eastaway, Mark Stevens (Illustrator)
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
- Bowlers and their individual styles
- Different types of cricket played throughout the world
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Legends of Cricket
by Geoff Armstrong
If you are an avid cricket fan you should own "Legends of Cricket" even if you don't agree with the author's rankings. Each article is very informative and thoroughly researched.
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Corner Of A Foreign Field: The Indian History Of A British Sport
by Ramachandra Guha
An important, pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large, and how sport can influence both social and political history. A book that seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of cricketers with wider processes of social change.
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CRICKET UMPIRING AND SCORING
by Tom Smith
Since its first publication Tom Smith's CRICKET UMPIRING AND SCORING has become the first reference book umpires and scores from Test match to club cricket levels consult. It contains the complete Laws of Cricket, help on interpretation and practical hints. Tom Smith's book has been revised under the auspices of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers. It is the only guide authorised by the Association. This new edition has been fully revised to take into account the new 2000 Laws of Cricket, the first major revision for a decade.
Tom Smith was for many years General Secretary of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers.
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Tom Smith's Cricket Umpiring and Scoring: The Internationally Recognised Definitive Guide to the Interpretation and Application of the Laws of Cricked
by Tom Smith, Richie Benaud (Introduction)
Tom Smith first wrote his guide for umpires and scorers in 1980. Since then his 'indispensable' guide (Richie Benaud) has gone through five fully-revised editions. The 'new' Tom Smith is the first to be fully redesigned and updated for the 21st century. Its publication coincides with international recognition that there should be one universal standard for the training of umpires whatever country they operate in. The 'new' Tom Smith incorporates the full 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket with amendments as ratified by the MCC and international and national cricket bodies in 2003. The freshly drawn diagrams are easy to follow and will be of value not only to umpires and scorers, but to all lovers of the game of cricket. As Richie Benaud, the great Australian cricketer and commentator, has said, he never goes without his copy of 'Tom Smith'. Nor should any spectator who wishes to feel fully qualified in discussing the application of the Laws of Cricket to the game. As Colin Cowdrey, former England captain, wrote, Tom Smith 'offers clear direction to all umpires and scorers.' John Arlott, one of the great commentators on cricket, called it 'the essential guide.'
Tom Smith founded the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers in 1953 and served as its General Secretary for 25 years. It now has more than 8,000 members world wide. On his death in 1995 he willed his cricketing 'bible' to the Association, who have ensured its continual updating ever since.
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Cricket in America, 1710-2000
by P. David Sentance
Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America’s sports identity—and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America’s aristocrats to a safe haven for America’s nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws.
Here, the game’s unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket’s ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America’s inner cities.
P. David Sentance’s cricket career spans 40 years and five continents. He works in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America
by Tom Melville
This book presents a detailed, full, and well-documented history of cricket playing in America, focusing on its period of growth in the 1840s and its periodic revivals and the social and cultural factors and circumstances of these revivals of interest. Its argument essentially is that cricket failed to take on, or resisted an American identity but that the sport had considerable appeal and recognized virtues both as a bat-and-ball sport and a "gentlemanly" sport that fostered sportsmanship, control, public manners, and decorum. Cricket found acceptance mainly in the upper leisure class but also appealed to working-class people. Melville argues that cricket resisted changes in the rules or style of play that would have made it a faster-moving sport of alternating cation (offense and defense) and that it remained a club sport that resisted professionalism and organization for profit.
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