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The Dictionary of Cricket

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Cricket, as most everyone knows, is 'the other bat-and-ball sport'. It's also the one that is more widely played than almost any other game on the planet, with the possible exception of football (or soccer, if you wish to be all-inclusive). Cricket is a very old, very beautiful, and very exciting game, and, having the long history that it does, there is a vast, rich legacy of terms, expressions, and phrases associated with it. These can be quite confusing to the uninitiated, especially in non-cricketing countries.

Enter the 'Dictionary of Cricket'. Mr. Rundell, who is noted simply as a 'lexicographer' - and cricket afficianado - on the jacket, has assembled a clear, effective, concise collection of terms both archaic and modern, highlighting them with extracts from a wide variety of cricket literature, most of which - particularly in the United States - would be otherwise unavailable. This book is a guide for everyone, from the interested amateur to the keenest follower of anything from Test matches to local county cricket.

My sole quibble with the guide, and one which certainly is not enough to diminish the book's value as a whole, is the illustration, which is confined to simple line drawings and diagrams - one generally expects better from Oxford. However, there are many other books out there if you want pictures. If you want simply the facts and explanations of everything every said about cricket, then this is the book for you.

I didn't like the book, I wish I had bought a different book but this book was totally boring for me. I don't know why I wanted it, I guess I expected more for my money.