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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Cricket
For many decades, women and girls' cricket has been
under-represented, under-financed, undervalued and lacking in true
organisation. Despite this, many thousands of female players over
the years have fought against the barriers, developed their skills
and fallen in love with this incredible sport. Recent years have
seen an explosion of female participation, broadcast coverage, new
teams, new clubs, new competitions and an undeniable sense that
women and girls' cricket is establishing itself as the most
significant growth area of the game. We've seen full houses at
Lords and the MCG, we've seen the success of the Hundred, the
Women's Big Bash, the prospect of a Women's IPL and most
importantly, thousands of new players across the world benefitting
from everything cricket has to offer. What is needed now, is to
build on these successes, to provide resources and information for
clubs, schools and coaches to start, to grow and to coach their own
programmes. This book is the answer. Lydia Greenway has written a
full guide on coaching, administration, formats, techniques, EDI
and more. Packed with practical advice, the book has original
contributions from some of the most influential players,
administrators, coaches and broadcasters in the world, including:
Charlotte Edwards, Alyssa Healy, Heather Knight, Kate Cross, Ebony
Rainford-Brent, Henry Moeran, Nat Sciver, Isa Guha, Lisa Sthalekar,
Mel Jones, Lisa Keightley, Alex Hartley, Clare Connor, Ali
Mitchell, Charles Dagnall, Katherine Brunt, Amy Jones and more.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published in 1864, and a new
edition has been published every year since then. While
limited-edition reprints of every edition of Wisden from 1864 to
1946 have been published over the past few decades, collecting
these limited-edition reprints is not cheap as each one has
normally been priced between GBP50 and GBP100. Now, for the first
time, John Wisden & Co is offering a bundle of the
print-on-demand reprints of the editions between 1916 and 1919, to
allow cricket lovers more affordable access to this historic book
which forms such a significant part of the game's great heritage.
Believe, Sachin Tendulkar told him - and he took it to heart,
getting the word etched on his arm as a tattoo. In this book,
Suresh Raina takes us through the challenges he faced as a young
cricketer. He was bullied in school and at cricket camps, but he
always punched above his weight, overcoming every adversity life
threw at him and never giving up. This is the story of the lessons
he learnt and the friendships he built. Peppered with invaluable
insights - about the game and about life - that Raina acquired from
senior colleagues like M.S. Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble,
Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, among others, this book will
make you believe in the power of hard work, love, luck, hope and
camaraderie. It is a journey through the highs and lows in the
cricketing career of a man who saw his world fall apart and yet
became one of the most influential white-ball cricketers India has
ever seen.
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