Regardless of whether you're a weekend cricketer or aspiring armchair expert Cricket for Dummies helps the reader make sense of this fascinating and seemingly complicated sport.

Cricket for Dummies is not simply a jargon-busting guide to cricket's laws, techniques and tactics. It also contains advice on kitting yourself out and provides lessons on playing the game, improving your batting, bowling and fielding skills. You'll also discover the tournaments, global rivalries and great players that make the game of cricket so compelling.

The Rules of Cricket

Julian Knight is a BBC journalist, writer and cricket enthusiast. He is a former youth coach and captain, and has been a club cricketer for over 20 years. Consultant Editor, Gary Palmer played first class cricket for ten years with Somerset before becoming a professional coach.

This book is written and compiled in a simplistic, yet informative style and copies are available now from cricshop.com