Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cricket

The Ashes take place twice every four years, and each series, the next of which is in November, increasingly gains more interest. Though to some, this ludicrously complicated sport may just look like a large group of people standing around in a field!

If you’ve ever wondered what a Barmy Army is and how you sign up, what that whole LBW thing means and questioned the personal duel between the batsman and the bowler, this book will remove the mystery and explain all you ever needed to know about cricket, but were too afraid to ask.

As Ian Macintosh himself admits, this isn’t really a guidebook at all. It’s more like personal tuition from someone who won’t point and laugh at you when you ask ‘If this is the Test match, when does the real one start?’. Written in a humorous tone with no jargon and no technical terms you will discover the history of the game, tips on how to watch a live game and how the game can be turned on its head in a split-second.

Part of the Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About series that also covers Football, Golf and Rugby. This series is ideal for the ‘cricket widow’ and new and existing fans.

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AUTHOR DETAILS

Ian Macintosh is the UK Sports Correspondent for The New Paper (Singapore). He is also the author of Football Fables. As a batsman, he never reached double figures, as a bowler he never took a wicket and as a wicket-keeper he once caught a ball on his nose.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cricket is published by A&C Black, priced £6.99