Cricket Explained

by Rob Eastaway

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312094116
• ISBN13: 9780312094119
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A fantastic guide for the recently initiated

I had the pleasure of catching two of the five days of an England test match against South Africa at the Oval during a recent holiday in London. As an American and an avid baseball fan, all I had ever heard of cricket was "boring", "incomprehensible" and, yet again, "boring". I found my two days at the Oval fascinating and was fortunate enough to not only have the patience to pay attention to the game during those two days, but also to stumble upon this great book at a bookstore on Fulham. I was even more fortunate to find the book between the two days I attended, read it from cover to cover, and have become a bit of a pest now to my American nonbelieving friends. Cricket is a great sport and if you want the quick and dirty, well here it is. From Googly to Howzhat, it's all here. Now I know enough to pester my Indian neighbors during the next test match. I wish I had this book last year during the World Cup. Great read.

Informative and amusing at the same time

This book is best suited to somebody who has witnessed some cricket without having a clue what was going on. The book is filled with answers to questions typical of the ones a novice might ask (why do they all wear white? don't they all get bored? who's WINNING???). Fun cartoons throughout. I understand that the UK edition of this book is called 'what is a googly?'.

Cricket Explained

This is a great starter book for anyone interested in the great English pastime of cricket. This book explains the rules to you without confusing you with lots of weird terms. Cricket Explained also recommends places to see matches and what to bring. I think this is a wonderful book that teaches you without confusing you.

This book makes sense of cricket to even the dumbest yank.

Rob Eastaway wrote this book, "Cricket Explained" so that anybody, whether they have never seen cricket in their life, or if they have wondered for years why a bowler rubs the ball on his trousers, can fully understand and appreciate this incredible sport.