Learn To Play Cricket Teach Yourself

Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself is the essential guide for cricketers of all ages who want to improve their all-round skills and player performance. Written by Mark Butcher, Captain of Surrey County Cricket Club and former England Captain, together with Paul Abraham, an ECB Level 3 Coach and Berkshire County Cricket Club Committee Chairman, this book will help you to improve every dimension of your game. It covers all aspects of the sport from preparing for the game to improving your batting, fielding and bowling techniques. It also gives essential advice on tactical play, coaching, umpiring, scoring and most importantly the rules of the sport. Packed full of practices, training drills and key advice from Butcher and Abraham, this book will help you reach your full potential. Teach Yourself - the world`s leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals. Let our expert author guide you through this brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book. Go online at www.teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don`t have much time, don`t worry - every book gives you 1, 5 and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming patterns, bass runs and walks, hammer-ons and pull-offs, how to read tablature, picking lead, crosspicking, practice techniques, and much more.

'I am delighted this remarkable man has chosen to share his unique coaching secrets' - Michael Slater How I Taught Michael Slater to Play Cricketis far more than an ordinary coaching manual; it is a book as innovative, passionate and opinionated as the man himself. Full of tips and tactics, this comprehensive and detailed handbook covers everything from batting basics to building an inning, from game strategies on and off the field to those one per cent factors which can mean the difference between a good player and a great one. Features include: Illustrated drills for right and left-handers: those batting, bowling and fielding drills that Wazza uses in his own clinics working with everyone from elite players to kids from the bush Advice on warm-ups and practice, equipment and fitness Coaching girls and women Answers to the curliest questions: Should a coach be a selector? Should a batsman walk? Is there room in the game for verbals and sledging? Why are most cricket teams captained by batsmen? What is the ideal batting order? And why does Warren have a bicycle in the dressing room? Learning from the stars: Warren analyses the games of the world s greatest players old and new.

Love cricket? Want to know the proper way to play the shots, bowl leg spin or stop the ball in the field with an ace Long Barrier? Study it for yourself - anywhere! This book has 128 colour pages packed with detailed pictures, diagrams, skills sheets and simple explanations plus quizzes and fun pages. A completely new type of sports book which gives YOU the info you need, fun and easy to read. If you know nothing about cricket or already play DON'T MISS THIS BOOK! This is like no coaching book you've ever seen! Cricket is fun and we hope this book will help you to enjoy it.! Whether you're a complete beginner or a very experienced club player this book is for you! Puzzled as to how the front foot drive should be played? About the proper way to catch a ball? The bowling action? This book is full of accurate pictures of every basic skill in cricket, with easy to follow steps of how the skills are done, plus lots of fun sheets. OK, you can't learn a sport from a book but having pictures and lots of information certainly helps! Study these skill sheets. Practice the stances in front of a mirror. If you like drawing try drawing out the poses for yourself (drawing something is a great way to get it in your head). The book is in four sections, Fielding GREEN, Batting, RED, Bowling BLUE, Wicketkeeping, ORANGE. It starts with a simple explanation of the game of cricket then gets in to more detail, But however much cricket you've played the skills sheets are for you!

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How to play cricket tells you what you need to know to play well, basic batting skills, making runs, fast and slow bowling, wicket keeping fielding and more.