Do you know your flipper's from your ducks or your leg spinners from your off spinners? This full colour book tells you everything you need to know to play and watch cricket like a pro, including top tips, detailed diagrams, and fascinating trivia. Packed with exciting photographs of cricket stars in action, this book is a must for fans of this much-loved game.

 

There are 64 pages in this book. This is a guide book. This book was published 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Gavin Mortimer was born in London 35 years ago. As a freelance journalist he has contributed articles to a diverse range of magazines and newspapers, including the Observer, the Guardian, History Monthly and Esquire. He has written many adult books on a variety of themes, and writes monthly for Rugby World and Observer Sports Magazine. He is a member of the MCC and has played cricket since he was a small boy and comes from a family of cricket fanatics. This is his first book for Puffin.