--- title: Cricket description: Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport played across formats from Test to T20. You will learn the rules, batting, bowling and fielding technique, tactics and the game's history. category: sports-recreation subcategory: team-sports difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cricket --- # Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport played across formats from Test to T20. You will learn the rules, batting, bowling and fielding technique, tactics and the game's history. ## Available Resources 1 Videos • 4 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites ## Books ### 1. Beyond a Boundary **Author:** C.L.R. James C.L.R. James's 1963 book combining memoir and history. It traces cricket in colonial Trinidad and England and connects the game to class, race and politics. It is often called the greatest book written about any sport. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0822313839?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** cricket history, west indies cricket, colonialism, sports memoir, sport and politics ### 2. Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution **Author:** Tim Wigmore, Freddie Wilde An account of how Twenty20 changed cricket's tactics, skills and economics, based on interviews with more than fifty players and coaches. It covers data analysis, T20 batting and bowling strategy, franchise leagues and globalisation. Wisden Book of the Year 2020. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1913538079?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** t20 cricket, cricket tactics, cricket analytics, franchise leagues ### 3. The Art of Captaincy **Author:** Mike Brearley Mike Brearley's 1985 study of cricket captaincy, drawn from leading Middlesex and England, including the 1981 Ashes. It covers field placing, bowling changes, reading conditions and managing players such as Botham and Boycott. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1447294351?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** cricket captaincy, cricket tactics, field placing, leadership ### 4. The Art of Cricket **Author:** Don Bradman Canonical technique manual by a player, covering every discipline: Don Bradman's 1958 instruction manual on batting, bowling, fielding, wicketkeeping and captaincy, illustrated with photo sequences of technique and still cited as a classic technical text by the game's highest-averaging Test batsman. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1875892540?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** cricket technique, batting, bowling, fielding, wicketkeeping ## Videos ### 1. Cricket Victoria Coaching Clips **Author:** Cricket Victoria Free technique videos from the Victorian state governing body, grouped by skill. Sections cover batting (front foot, back foot, playing spin), fast bowling, spin bowling, wicketkeeping, fielding, conditioning and practice drills. Widest free coverage from a governing body. Many clips date from 2012–2014, though basic technique has not changed much. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/coaching-clips/ **Tags:** cricket coaching, batting technique, bowling technique, wicketkeeping, fielding drills ## Websites ### 1. Beginner's Guide to Cricket **Author:** England and Wales Cricket Board An introduction to cricket from the England and Wales Cricket Board. It covers team make-up, the toss, innings, how runs are scored, the ten ways to be dismissed, and the difference between T20, one-day and Test formats. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.ecb.co.uk/play/how-to-play-cricket/beginners-guide **Tags:** cricket rules, cricket basics, cricket formats, scoring ### 2. The Laws of Cricket (MCC, 2017 Code 4th Edition 2026) **Author:** Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) The primary source the rest of the game's rules depend on: the official Laws of Cricket, written and maintained by Marylebone Cricket Club, the game's legal custodian. The current 2017 Code, 4th Edition (2026) covers dismissals, no-balls, fair play and scoring. Free to read online or download in several languages. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-laws-of-cricket **Tags:** laws of cricket, cricket rules, umpiring, mcc ## Courses ### 1. MCC Official Laws of Cricket eLearning **Author:** Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) MCC's online course on the Laws of Cricket for players and trainee umpires. It uses match footage and clips of international cricketers to explain each Law and ends with an assessment. Teaches the Laws with video examples of hard cases such as LBW, no-balls and obstruction. Free, but registration is required. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://laws.lords.org/ **Tags:** laws of cricket, umpiring, lbw, no-ball, mcc --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cricket