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Cricket, Rules, Humor

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Page 8
Foreword
Page 9
1. Why This Book?
Page 13
2. Where Did Cricket Come From?
Page 16
Where do Lord's and the MCC come in?
Page 17
When did cricket become 'modern'?
Page 17
Who was this Bradman bloke?
Page 19
Why do they complain that cricket isn't what it was?
Page 20
3. What is Cricket?
Page 22
Is it like rounders?
Page 22
How many people play in a cricket match?
Page 24
What happens on the cricket field?
Page 24
Why do they all change ends?
Page 26
Yes, but what's the point of it all?
Page 27
How are runs scored?
Page 29
How do you get somebody out?
Page 32
When, and why, do they all shout 'Howzat!'
Page 38
4. Who's Winning?
Page 41
How do you win at cricket?
Page 42
Winning a one innings match
Page 43
Winning a two innings match
Page 44
How can you spend five days playing cricket and still draw?
Page 45
Why is it always raining?
Page 47
5. What Do All the People Do?
Page 49
Batsmen
Page 49
What is the batting order?
Page 49
When does the best batsman bat?
Page 51
Why do batsmen tap the ground with their bats?
Page 53
What is a square cut?
Page 54
Don't the batsmen get hurt?
Page 57
Bowlers
Page 58
Who are the bowlers?
Page 58
Why do bowlers have to make the ball bounce?
Page 58
How does the captain decide which type of bowler to choose?
Page 59
Who are the bowlers with long run ups?
Page 60
What is a medium pacer?
Page 61
Why do bowlers rub the ball on their trousers?
Page 62
How do they make it bounce funnily off the pitch?
Page 64
Aren't slow bowlers easy to hit?
Page 65
What is a googly?
Page 67
Fielders
Page 67
How do they all know where to stand?
Page 67
What are 'silly mid off' and 'short leg'?
Page 69
Why don't the fielders wear gloves?
Page 72
Who is the twelfth man?
Page 74
Umpires
Page 74
What does the umpire do?
Page 74
Who are the umpires?
Page 77
6. What About Tactics?
Page 79
What keeps the spectators so interested?
Page 79
What does the captain do?
Page 81
The toss (and the pitch)
Page 81
Tactics of the fielding captain
Page 82
Tactics of the batting captain
Page 83
What goes through the mind of the bowler?
Page 85
What are the batsman's tactics?
Page 88
So is there some kind of master plan?
Page 89
7. Do Cricket Matches Last for Ever?
Page 91
What is Test cricket?
Page 91
Which counties play county cricket?
Page 93
Which is the type of cricket that almost looks interesting?
Page 95
What type of cricket do they play on the village green?
Page 97
8. What About All Those Numbers?
Page 100
Why do they like all those numbers?
Page 100
Who keeps the score?
Page 101
How do you know when to clap?
Page 103
How can you tell if it's a good score?
Page 104
Do I need to know any of the famous statistics?
Page 106
9. Am I Ready to Go to a Match Now?
Page 109
What should I take to a match?
Page 109
Why do they shout when I walk past the white screen?
Page 111
10. But What Makes Cricket So Special?
Page 114
Glossary and Index
Page 117
Some Selected Further Reading
Page 143

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144).
Published in the United States under title: Cricket explained.

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Cricket explained.

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Library of Congress
GV917 .E27 1992

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144 p. :
Number of pages
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Internet Archive
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