Know the Game: Complete skills: Cricket
Bloomsbury Sport (Verlag)
978-1-4729-1958-8 (ISBN)
The Know the Game Complete Skills series is a perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Compiled from the individual Know the Game Cricket titles, the book will teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying the sport – by giving them plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it. In this book, players will learn :
Batting:
How to: control the bat, face a bowler, play all the shots, 'read' a bowler, understand the field, run between the wickets
Bowling:
Profile of a bowler, bowling to a plan , bowling actions, the run-up and release, swing bowling, seam bowling, spin bowling and variations
Fielding:
The field and field placings, the ready position, close catching, catching in the deep, overarm throw, intercepts, retrieving the ball, the long barrier, wicketkeeping skills
Clearly illustrated and written by a professional coach, this book will give every young player the all the skills they need to enjoy cricket.
Luke Sellers is an ECB-qualified coach. He is the community cricket coach for Gloucestershire, working with young players of all abilities and in coach education.
PART ONE: BATTING
Introduction
Equipment
Perfect preparation
Front foot defence
Back foot defence
Leaving the ball
Front foot driving
Back foot driving
The square cut
The pull
The leg glance
The sweep shot
Good running
PART TWO: BOWLING
Introduction
Bowling to a plan
Bowling actions
Breaking it down
Swing bowling
Seam bowling
Spin bowling
Spin variations
PART THREE: FIELDING
Introduction
The getting ready position
Close catching
Catching in the deep
Overarm throw
One-handed intercept
Two-handed intercept
Crow hop
Retrieving the ball
The long barrier
Wicketkeeping skills
Wicketkeeping standing up
Wicketkeeping standing back
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.3.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Know the Game |
Zusatzinfo | More than 100 full colour photographs and diagrams throughout |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 177 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4729-1958-0 / 1472919580 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-1958-8 / 9781472919588 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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