The most comprehensive guide to Cricket that has ever been written! Most other dart books focus only on fundamentals and the most basic rules of both Cricket and '01. This book is the only complete strategy guide available and will cover almost all possible angles and game play scenarios to help you become a master of the game. Includes detailed graphics that even the most novice players can follow. If you want to learn how to master the game of Cricket and learn what it takes to compete with the world's best players, this book is for you! Also included with the book is the author's email address if you have any questions or would like additional help with certain scenarios.

Sculpting YOU to be the next master batsman – Sachin Tendulkar: One of the more technical books on the market which is not just a time pass but is actually meant to teach serious batsman and those serious about going on with cricket the exact formula, method and technique required to develop the game of a master. Perhaps one of the best resources of formative guidance for the serious batsman on the market, this book gives you a peephole into the mind of one the game’s greatest thinkers and talents. Every intricacy and aspect to Tendulkar’s game is studied, analysed and scrutinised and it is shown to the reader the exact what and why behind the little masters batting and what’s more the aspects to mental toughness and mental resiliency which allowed him to launch a career of such mammoth proportions. The book reveals in to the reader what made Tendulkar Tendulkar and what it will take on your behalf to also become the next Tendulkar and really does go into almost pin point detail about the little master’s game and substantiates to the common man exactly what made Tendulkar so good.

Offers an innovative approach to teaching and coaching sport that combines contemporary theory with the experience of practical and reflective work in real sport environments. It covers a wide range of team and individual sports, including archery, table tennis, flag football, skiing, cricket and track and field.

In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.

The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, and in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays- this Corinthian spirit was then exported around the world. The competitive spirit, the importance of fairness, the nobility of the gifted amateur seemed to sum up everything that was good about Britishness and the games they played. Today, sport is dominated by corruption, money, celebrity and players who are willing to dive in the box if it wins them a penalty. Yet, we still believe and talk about the game as if it had a higher moral purpose. Since the age of Thomas Arnold, Sport has been used to glorify dictatorships and was at the heart of cold war diplomacy. Prime Ministers, princes and presidents will do whatever they can to ensure that their country holds a major sporting tournament. Nelson Mandela saw the victory of the Rugby World Cup as essential to his hopes for the Rainbow Nation. Mihir Bose has lived his life around sport and in this book he tells the story of how Sport has lost its original spirit and how it has emerged in the 20th century to become the most powerful political tool in the world. With examples and stories from around the world including how the sport-hating Thomas Arnold become an icon; how a German manufacturer gave Jessie Owens a pair of shoes at the Berlin games of 1936 and went on to dominate the world of sport; how India stole cricket from the ICC; how an Essex car dealer become the most powerful man in Formula 1; and who really sold football out. Praise for Mihir Bose: 'Mihir Bose is India's CLR James.' Simon Barnes, The Times. 'Mihir's insider knowledge is unsurpassed' David Welch. 'His Olympic contacts are second to none. He knows everybody.' Sue Mott.