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Cricket: Steps to Success - Ralph Dellor
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Cricket: Steps to Success
by Ralph Dellor
NEW, 184 pages
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About Cricket: Steps to Success
Step up to winning cricket play. Cricket: Steps to Success contains progressive instruction for comprehensive coverage of individual skills, techniques and the fundamentals of team play.
With Cricket: Steps to Success, you will learn the proper techniques of batting, bowling, fielding and wicket-keeping. Through clear, detailed instruction, full-colour photos and illustrations and 71 of the game’s best drills, you will develop each skill and identify and correct common flaws in technique as you assess your abilities and gauge your progress.
When you have mastered the fundamentals, Cricket: Steps to Success takes you onto the field and into the game. From the roles and responsibilities of each position to the essentials of team play, you’ll be prepared for every situation on the pitch.
If you are ready to master the game of cricket, rely on the one resource proven to make a difference. Cricket: Steps to Success—part of the popular Steps to Success series with more than 1.5 million copies sold—is your guide to winning play.
About Ralph Dellor
Ralph Dellor has been involved with cricket for over 50 years as a player, broadcaster, journalist and coach. In a career that has taken him to some 25 countries, he has coached the England women's team and was on the coaching staff at Oxford University. More recently, Ralph has been coach of the Norwegian national team that has risen from relative obscurity to enter the first division of European cricket.
Fully involved in spreading cricket's popularity, Dellor was the first chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board Coaches Association, worked for the International Cricket Council, was a selector for the England Amateur XI, serves on the Berkshire County Cricket Club committee and is chairman of his local village club. He was also a member of the UK Sports Council and an advisor to a former UK minister for sport.
Reviews of the Book
“This book demonstrates what club coaches and those working with schools have been waiting for. The step-by-step approach will supply the tools to help youngsters develop basic skills and achieve excellence.”
Tony Bowry
Cricket Development Manager,
Yorkshire Cricket Board
About Cricket
A cricket match is played between two teams (or sides) of eleven players each on a field of variable size and shape. The ground is grassy and is prepared by groundsmen whose jobs include fertilising, mowing, rolling and levelling the surface. Field diameters of 137–150 metres (150–160 yd) are usual. The perimeter of the field is known as the boundary and this is sometimes painted and sometimes marked by a rope that encircles the outer edge of the field. The Laws of Cricket do not specify the size or shape of the field but it is often oval – one of cricket's most famous venues is called The Oval.
The objective of each team is to score more runs than the other team and to completely dismiss the other team. In one form of cricket, winning the game is achieved by scoring the most runs, even if the opposition has not been completely dismissed. In another form, it is necessary to score the most runs and dismiss the opposition in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn.
Before play commences, the two team captains toss a coin to decide which team shall bat or bowl first. The captain who wins the toss makes his decision on the basis of tactical considerations which may include the current and expected field and weather conditions.
The key action takes place in a specially prepared area of the field (generally in the centre) that is called the pitch. At either end of the pitch, 22 yards (20 m) apart, are placed the wickets. These serve as a target for the bowling (aka fielding) side and are defended by the batting side which seeks to accumulate runs. A run is scored when the batsman has run the length of the pitch after hitting the ball with his bat, although as explained below there are many ways of scoring runs. If the batsmen are not attempting to score any more runs, the ball is dead and is returned to the bowler to be bowled again.
The bowling side seeks to dismiss the batsmen by various means until the batting side is all out, whereupon the side that was bowling takes its turn to bat and the side that was batting must take the field.
In professional matches, there are 15 people on the field while a match is in play. Two of these are the umpires who regulate all on-field activity. Two are the batsmen, one of whom is the striker as he is facing the bowling; the other is called the non-striker. The roles of the batsmen are interchangeable as runs are scored and overs are completed. The fielding side has all 11 players on the field together. One of them is the bowler, another is the wicketkeeper and the other nine are called fielders. The wicketkeeper (or keeper) is nearly always a specialist but any of the fielders can be called upon to bowl.
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